* RE: accessing pdf documents with speakup
@ Dawes, Stephen
` Trevor Astrope
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From: Dawes, Stephen @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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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Subject: Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
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.
Samuel
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* RE: accessing pdf documents with speakup
accessing pdf documents with speakup Dawes, Stephen
@ ` Trevor Astrope
` Willem van der Walt
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From: Trevor Astrope @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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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
>
> NOTICE -
> This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication, or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks you for your attention and co-operation.
>
> __________________________
> Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:19 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Subject: Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
>
> 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.
>
> Samuel
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` Trevor Astrope
@ ` Willem van der Walt
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From: Willem van der Walt @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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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
> >
> > NOTICE -
> > This communication is intended ONLY for the use of the person or entity
> > named above and may contain information that is confidential or legally
> > privileged. If you are not the intended recipient named above or a person
> > responsible for delivering messages or communications to the intended
> > recipient, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that any use, distribution, or copying of
> > this communication or any of the information contained in it is strictly
> > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify
> > us immediately by telephone and then destroy or delete this communication,
> > or return it to us by mail if requested by us. The City of Calgary thanks
> > you for your attention and co-operation.
> >
> > __________________________
> > Sent from my Windows Mobile® phone.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 11:19 AM
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> > Subject: Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Samuel
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> > _______________________________________________
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> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> >
>
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* accessing pdf documents with speakup
@ Don Raikes
` Samuel Thibault
` luke
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From: Don Raikes @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: speakup
Hello all,
Now that I have speakup working, I need to know is there a way to read
pdf documents when using speakup?
In my work, I have a need to read a lot of pdf documents, and I don't
know of a command-line application which would allow me to read them.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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* Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
Don Raikes
@ ` Samuel Thibault
` luke
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Samuel Thibault @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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.
Samuel
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* Re: accessing pdf documents with speakup
Don Raikes
` Samuel Thibault
@ ` luke
1 sibling, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: luke @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
The best way I have found, is the "pdftotext" program, from the XPDF
package.
It has the advantage of different presentation styles: if the document
does not look good while viewing in in the default format, you can try
with the "-layout" or "-raw" option, to try a different style of display.
Execution example:
pdftotext -layout file.pdf - | fmt | less
or just:
pdftotext file.pdf - | fmt | less
(Note: "fmt" wrapps the lines, which will otherwise break strangely)
That is not the only way to run it, but it is the form I usually use.
Regards,
Luke
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008, Don Raikes wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Now that I have speakup working, I need to know is there a way to read
> pdf documents when using speakup?
> In my work, I have a need to read a lot of pdf documents, and I don't
> know of a command-line application which would allow me to read them.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>
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