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Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian]

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Good afternoon.
I am providing another option that might help here.
robobraille,

www.robobraille.org
Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files  to a 
number of different formats, including .html
They provide audio, mobi, and  convert epub files too..but I digress.
As a test, consider sending your file to
convert at robobraille.org
  correctly of course.
in the subjectline put html
leaving the body blank, and attach the file.
See if the .html file returned meets your needs.
Best,
Karen



On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>  this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general,
>>  PDFs
>>  are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for
>>  anything else. ...
>
> Second sentence should read:
>>  ... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vision ...
>
> I'm attempting to read a USDA document.[1]
> The printed version of this document is marginally readable.
>
> Tools such as "Atril Document Viewer" provide selected magnification.
> For this particular document and monitor, 150% is comfortable. Requires 
> re-positioning the viewpoint 500 to 600 times to read document.
>
> For _this_ document, Atril can select all the text on a page in a manner that 
> can be pasted in a "reasonable" manner to a Pluma document.
>
> It will:
>    a. ignore actual graphics.
>    b. put title/headings/??? on a separate line.
>    c. all text between full page-width title/headings/??? will be
>      treated as a logical unit.
> It will not:
>    1. put a blank line between paragraphs.
>    2. put a blank line above/below lines containing title/headings/???.
>    3. identify superscripts in some manner.
>
> All this suggests that it should be able to extract text from a PDF and 
> create a HTML document likely using only <p>, <br>, <sup>, and <li> in its 
> <body>.
>
>
> [1] 
> https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf
>     _Thrifty Food Plan, 2021_
>     Food and Nutrition Service
>     August 2021
>     FNS-916
>
>

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  Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian] Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net> - 2024-06-24 19:20 +0200
    Re: Needed tool for vision-impaired - was [Re: PDF Editor for Debian] Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> - 2024-06-24 19:30 +0200
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