Re: [orca-list] Queries regarding e-book readers for Visually Impaired

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

This is not a direct answer, but in many cases people just convert a format, i.e. epub to pdf, html or plain 
text. As I do not buy a lot of ebooks, and 
as much of the free content is available in an already easy to use format, this is the path I usually take. 
I strongly recommend getting calibre as it comes with a CLI component, large group of scripts, called 
ebook-convert which does a very clean convertion 
where other utilities may not do such a good job sometimes. The poppler packages, (names may vary a bit 
depending on distro), are also important to 
have. For inistance you can use pdftotext which is part of poppler to do what the name implies. 
pdftotext some pdf-file.pdf
to get sometxt-file.txt, but once in a while the convertion is not good enough, e.g. some words may be run 
together, or characters are not correctly  
displayed.
Other converters are also handy as sometimes you can get a book in .rtf or a microsoft word format like .doc 
or .docx. 
unrtf and antiword are very good, and the times I've used it docx2txt has also done the job correctly 
preserving format ini most cases nicely.
--
B.H.
   

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 03:18:49PM +0530, Leena Chourey wrote:
>    Dear all,
>    While exploring about the e-book reading facility for Visually
>    Impaired, I found that various formats like epub, pdf are availble.
>    Various readers like FBReader, Coolreader, Caliber people use. Please
>    help to find answer for my queries about
>      * What are the tools available to read e-books?
>      * Is it require to have specific readers to read e-books?
>      * Widely used e-book readers working on Linux & Android platform and
>        with screen reader like Orca
>      * Accessibility issues (if any) with e-book reader
>      * Navigation related issues with e-book reader
>
>    With regards
>
>    Leena

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