Just click the link and Snapverter will convert the file for you! For information on how to use Snapverter please read How to use Snapverter. Menu icon A vertical stack of three evenly spaced horizontal lines. The message under the toolbar will say: Click here to convert it now with Snapverter. To search a PDF on your Mac for a specific word or phrase, you can use the search function in the built-in Preview app. In this case you will have to contact the publisher to see if they have an accessible version of the publication)įor more information about getting the best OCR results, please read How to get the best OCR results. ( Note: Some publishers secure their content where they may not be allowed to be converted. A trial version of Snapverter is available Chrome Web Store. We have a Chrome app called Snapverter that is used for converting files to be accessible. The PDF will need to be scanned in order to make the text readable. This means that the text in the PDF is inaccessible and cannot be read or selected using the OrbitNote toolbar. OrbitNote will show when a PDF doesn't have accessible text: I use a 2012 Macbook Pro with High Sierra and Google Chrome version 87. A scan may produce a PDF that is actually an image that contains text that is not readable. For that, click Create PDF, locate and select the Word document in your PC. If you’ve scanned documents to PDF format, they may need to be OCR'd (Optical Character Recognition) in order to be readable.
