RE: accessing pdf documents with speakup

[Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@csir.co.za>]

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There is also a tool called pdf2html or pdftohtml I am not sure, which can 
be used from the command line.
It has the advantage that it  creates a list of links to the different 
pages of the document and if you want, you can keep any images that were 
in the document.
It uses a variant of xpdf to do the actual work.
Regards, Willem


On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Trevor Astrope wrote:

> I don't think that service exists any longer. The last time I tried to use it,
> they said there is no longer a need for the service, as accessibility is now
> built into the adobe reader. :(
> 
> pdftotext is the only command line tool I know of.
> 
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
> 
> > Addobe use to provide a online service that you would provide the pdf to and
> > they would send the converted file back in a format of your choice. The
> > choices were something like html or text. Take a look arond on
> > Access.adobe.com
> > To see if the service still exists.
> >
> >
> >
> > Stephen Dawes
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> > From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
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> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Subject: Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
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> > Don Raikes, le Mon 11 Aug 2008 10:05:00 -0700, a écrit :
> > > and I don't know of a command-line application which would allow me to
> > > read them.
> >
> > pdftotext, from some poppler package.
> >
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