Re: pdf forms from Social Security

[John covici <covici ccs covici com>]

I have one of those here, but its an image and you can't read
anything in it -- but ABBYY FineReader 6 will do ocr on a pdf and
they have a form filler although I have not tried it.

on Sunday 08/04/2002 Janina Sajka(janina afb net) wrote
 > This is a clear cut 508 violation, in my view. There is no good 
 > accessibility to forms in PDF on any platform, including Microsoft 
 > Windows.
 > 
 > 
 > On Sun, 4 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
 > 
 > > does anybody know whether or not there is a way to read the pdf forms on the
 > > social security site? I tried pdftotext and they did not come out legible.
 > > I also tried using google; the text version link got me a 'not found" and
 > > the html link (I put in the url for a particular form) got me the same
 > > illegible form that I got when trying to use pdftotext.
 > > For an example, one of the forms i tried to access was
 > > http://www.ssa.gov/online/ssa-632.pdf
 > > Also,
 > > is there any way to print these files to a printer short of finding somebody
 > > with
 > > a Windows system to do it?
 > > SSA provides just about nothing as far as their forms in accessible format, and
 > > if they are going to
 > > say their website provides that, their pdf files certainly don't appear to be
 > > accessible to me. Ironically, the instructions for the forms are right on the
 > > website, but the explanation is such that you have to be able to look at the
 > > form to understand the instructions.
 > > 
 > > Cheryl
 > > 
 > > 
 > > 
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