Re: [orca-list] a suggestion to solve pdf reading with orca.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi Krishnakant:

> Now with the given problem, I have a suggestion.
> Why don't we try and create a rudimentary gtk based simple pdf reader.
> It could be as simple as a text editor.  all that is urgently needed
> is to read a pdf file and get its font information and other
> attributes like bold italics and size of the font.

You might be able to accomplish this with pdftohtml which is part of the 
poppler-utils package on Ubuntu.  That is, run pdftohtml and then bring the 
results up in Firefox.

If you want to write your own PDF viewer from scratch, the main thing it is 
going to need is caret navigation and an accessible text implementation.  So, if 
this is all that Evince needs to make it accessible, perhaps it might require 
less work overall to just add these things to Evince?

Will