Read Out Loud, pdf file

I have adobe reader XI. I would like to scan a document, save it as a pdf file. Then have abobe reader read it out loud. Is this possible?

Not with Reader alone no. You would need to run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on the scan first otherwise there would be no text to read.
Your scanning software "may" have that option.

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I need help with a PDF file that is an image, the "Read Out Loud' option does not work, please help!

I need help with a PDF file that is an image, the "Read Out Loud' option does not work, please help!

You mean an image such as a scanned document?
If that is the case, the file doesn't contain any text for Reader Out Loud to read. In order to fix that, you would need an application such as Adobe Acrobat that does Optical Character Recognition to convert the images to actual text.
You can also try to export the file as a Word document or something else using ExportPDF which I believe offers OCR and is cheaper than Acrobat.

I have created PDF from hardcopy by using my scanner. After I run OCR option for my PDF by using Acrobat Pro 9. But "Text-to-speech" functionality of the PDF says that an error message comes up that says the page is empty when I turns on the read out loud

I have created PDF from hardcopy by using my scanner. After I run OCR option for my PDF by using Acrobat Pro 9. But "Text-to-speech" functionality of the PDF says that an error message comes up that says the page is empty when I turns on the read out loud option in Acrobat. Kindly help me to sortout this problems?

So I tried generating the same PDFs on two other computers that have Acrobat 9 Pro. Results were reproduced. The verdict is:
- complex PDF files (that is, containing cross-references, tables of contents, and bookmarks) generated by Acrobat 9.x Pro are roughly 2-5x larger than the identical file generated with Acrobat 8.x Pro.
- different PDF conversion settings make a negligable difference (less than 10% rather than 70-80%).
- using the "Reduce File Size" or "Optimize PDF" option cuts the file size roughly in half, almost always resulting in a "image downsampling mask" warning message, which requires acknowledgement (that is a problem for batch processing or automation).
- adding an Acrobat watermark to the file cuts the file size roughly in half.
- just using Save As to another filename has no effect on file size.
- generating the PDF in Acrobat 9 with links but no PDF bookmarks still results in the inflated file size.
- generating the PDF in Acrobat 9 without any links or bookmarks results in approximately the same file size as the Acrobat 8 PDF with full links and bookmarks.
It appears that Acrobat 9's manner of adding links is what's bloating the files, and in my case it's probably not related to images or image resolution/print quality. It's a shame, because Acrobat 9 seems to have made some improvements to the Review Tracker interface, and a few other bells and whistles which I haven't really gotten around to exporing yet. But unless I find a way to keep my links and the PDF file sizes comparable to what I was getting with Acrobat 8 Pro, it looks like I'm going to stay with Acrobat 8.

Accessible PDF not reading out Loud

After tagging in Adobe InDesign and creating the accessible PDF and running accessiblity full check and document passes.
Adobe Reader automaticly starts reading the cover then on next page its not reading paragraph, but If I select a line it reads that line only.

John,
If the Accessibility Full Check in Acrobat X says everything is fine, then you are all set.
Likely you were already practicing flowing threaded text frames, along with the careful use of paragraph and character styles. If you have also ALT-tagged the images, then you are doing essentially 99.99% percent of what you can do. ALT tagging can be done either in InDesign or after the fact in the Tags panel of Acrobat Pro.
I recommend that you upgrade to Acrobat XI (Acrobat DC is too new to have an opinion on it yet). And if you are going to do a lot of Accessibility fussing, do so on a Windows version of Acrobat XI--it is stabler.
Reading Out Loud is wonkier on the Mac version, for some reason, and is not necessarily the same way a true speech reader would go through the file. OTOH, if you get it to read out loud correctly, and the Tags panel is in the correct flow sequence, then you are fine.

Read out loud accessible PDFs

Read out loud accessible PDFs - is it possible to switch on this feature so that PDFs automatically start to read upon opening?

With "out-of-the-box" Adobe Reader / Acrobat?
I don't think so.
Be well...

Any way to have Kindle content or PDFs read out loud?

I see from various web pages that this is possible but I can't figure out quite how to get it to work. I have some PDFs which I could transfer to the iPhone through iTunes, and a bunch of books already in my Kindle app on the iPhone. Can either or both of these be read out loud? If so, how?!?
thanks in advance,
Mike

Hi Michael,
Not sure if this will work but try the help here.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12304769
Carolyn

Activating Read Out Loud degraded text in pdf

When I activated Read Out Loud in a pdf, the text became degraded - as though it were made up of tiny dots. Deactivating Read Out Loud did not help. Now every pdf I open in Adobe Reader X has that same degraded text. How can I get my normal looking text back?

Is there real text within the tagged area that will not read-aloud?
Jon

Read out loud, recognizing PDF tags?

Hello. I see that v 11.2 includes read out loud and UI navigation with accessibility mode. Thank you.
Looking at my Android phone Adobe Reader, "What's new" states that PDF tags are not recognized. When will the Adobe Readers for mobile devices recognize PDF tags? This is very important. - Bill

Is there real text within the tagged area that will not read-aloud?
Jon

Read Out Loud won't read tags, reads content instead

Hi,
I have a PDF generated through a third party library, and it is a tagged PDF (running it in PAC 1.3 and 2.0 says it passes accessibility test) and when I use the Read Out Loud feature on it in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and Adobe Reader, it ignores all the tags (including any Alternate and Actual text fields) and reads the content of the PDF instead of the tags. It even reads the header and the footer which are marked as Artifacts, which is strange as Artifacts should never be read out loud. When I run NVDA and have it read the PDF, it reads it normally as expected (reads only the tags, and follows the Alternate/Actual text fields).
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4ouw92
Here's an example of the file. I would expect the Read Out Loud feature to start with "I don't know", but instead it says DEVELOPMENT (an artifact) and then I D N, then I expect it to get to the last line of text before the footer and then simply continue to the second page, but it will instead read the header and the footer before it moves on to the next page. Any reason why it behaves like this? Why it ignores the tags and why it doesn't ignore the artifacts?
Thanks,
Dejan

Hi "a C student",
Thank you for your reply.
In order to make a sample of the pdf I changed actual code to produce the PDF I have linked to in my original post, and I didn't actually check that it passes PAC 1.3 and 2.0, as I simply believed that my code change did exactly the same thing that the production code does. It of course did not, and I gave you a "possessed" PDF Sorry about that. Here is a new sample, this time done a bit better
http://www.sendspace.com/file/ndajik
In PAC 1.3 it only warns about bookmarks, in 2.0 it fails the font embedding which should not be an issue and says PDF/UA identifier is not set - this might be the issue, but I do not know how to set it, I understood that all I need is to have the Title, Language and some other metadata fields set for the PDF to be PDF/UA compliant.
Anyway, I hope this sample works out better for you
Thanks,
Dejan

Read Out Loud

When I try to use the "Read out loud" feature in Adobe Reader reads out that I do not have the correct verification file and that I need to contact the Adobe Sales team to receive one,
I work in a school where we use volume licensing but I thought this was free feature in Adobe reader??

Hey ashi95779507,
You are absolutely correct that Adobe Reader is available for free along with free accessibility of its features.
Try using 'read out loud' feature in any other PDF file and check. What version of Reader do you use?
Please share the screenshot of the error message that appears on your screen.
Hope to get your response.
Regards,
Anubha

Read Out Loud Accessibility

I am not able to use "read out loud" for a pdf book file. I get this error "Read out loud cannot be activated for this document because it's permissions do not allow for content copying for accessibility." I checked under document restrictions and this is true. I know this is a way to prevent unauthorized copying but I travel a lot on planes and being able to use read out load is a great feature. I do not want to violate copywrites, just read the pdf book versus the hardcopy, I legally purchased both.
Is there a solution for me?
Thanks Ahead of Time

You will need to ask the provider of the PDF if an alternate PDF, having no restriction on content copy for accessibility is available.
Be well...

Read Out Loud in two languages

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Read out loud in two languages
stewart tower - 06:52am Feb 17, 2009 Pacific
I work in an office that prepares many reports in both english and french. A common document will have the english and french running side by side; english in the left column, french on the right. Each language will be one story that flows throughout the document.
A PDF is exported from InDesign. Tags are applied to the PDF and a check of the TAGS panel in Acrobat shows that each language is one story.
What we need if for this document to be able to Read Out Loud, english in its entirety and the same for the french. However, when the document reads out loud it reads the full english column on each page but then goes to the french column on the same page.
How can we make the PDF file read each language completely without reading both english and french for each page?
Thanks.

ilhanbalamur, I am not sure what you are trying to draw my attention to on this page. As I said in my post, I KNOW how to activate the Read Out Loud feature, and my PDFs are fully accessible. Perhaps there is something in the page you suggested that I am missing, but I see nothing there that will help me troubleshoot Acrobat's crashing when I select Read to End of Page or Read This Document. Please be more specific in your comment.

Read Out Loud States Authoring for Highlights

Hello fellow Adobe fans,
I usually Highlight my user manuals so it's easier to find things later.
Today I turned on "Read out Loud" and for each Highlighted word it says:
"Highlight Comment Christine July 31, 2012 7 hours 35 minutes and 1 sec (end link)"
The "end link" is in parentheses because I'm not positive that's what it's saying.
This is really annoying! I've gone through the Preferences numerous times and the help files as well. Is there a way to disable this?
Does anyone know why it's doing this and how to stop it? Or is my excessive use of Highlights the problem; perhaps "Read Out Loud" wasn't designed for it? Although, even if it was just a few words; it's still extremely distracting. I could see it's use if I was collaborating with a group; but surely there must be a way to turn this off for the average user?
About the file: I saved a Microsoft web page by "printing" it to a file using my Quicken PDF Printer. I'm using Adobe Reader v10.1.3 and Windows XP SP3.
Thanks very much for your time

Great question!!! When I travel I would like to be able to listen to some multi page documents....it would be like a book on tape.

Read out Loud isn't working in Adobe Reader.

I have clicked on the "view" tab - clicked on "Read out Loud" - clicked on " Read to the end of document" and I have no sound. I have checked sound on computer and it is turned on..Help I need to do a assignment.

The fact it's a PDF or that you see text on the page doesn't mean it's actually text. Most likely, it's just an image that contains text in it. As such, the ROL feature can't recognize that text and can't do anything with it. If you try to select it with the mouse you'll see that it selects the entire page.
There's nothing you can do about it in Reader, though. You need to run Text Recognition on the file using Adobe Acrobat.

Read Out loud is not working

I can't get some PDF to read out loud. Any idea why? I am able to select and copy the texts so it's not an image for sure. If I paste the texts to word or some other app, I can use the text to speech from my Mac OS to read out loud and it's working fine. Any suggestion is much appreciated.

Here's something new. This is one, http://www.ponemon.org/local/upload/file/NokNokWP_FINAL_3.pdf, of the many files that read out loud did not work. After reading your email, I thought I tried something new. The PDF in this link here read out loud fine in Safari and Chrome browser but when I downloaded to my computer it did not work in both Reader or Pro v11.0.10. I have a MacBook Pro Yosemite. That is very strange.

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