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

[Scott Berry <sberry northlc com>]

        Hello there,

I find this a wonderful idea.  A couple of things though that should be
in the main release in my view would be:

1. pdf2html implementation

2.  pdf2txt implementation

Lastly,  why not some integration with xsane so we could also be able to
scan in to pdf for coworkers and such.  I think if this were to happen
this would be a very viable solution.  Also in later releases of the
program we could then do some integration right in to evince once all
the accessible issues have been addressed.  I also think once this
becomes a good solution heck why not include it in to Orca like Jaws
includes a FS reader component?  


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:50 +0530, Krishnakant Mane wrote:
> hello all,
> I know this issue has come up before and I personally brought it up many times.
> However after what willi explained me off the list, I have been
> thinking about it.
> The issue is with reading pdf files through any free software pdf reader.
> We now know the problem with evince pdf reader.
>
> It is very unfortunate that the developers did not consider this very important.
> Any ways the bug is in the processs of being fixt and I am aware that
> it could be a lot of work and will take a long time for it to become
> fixt.
>
> Perhaps it will take more than a couple of releases of gnome before we
> have some good degree of accessibility with evince.
>
> 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.
> Just like some screen readers provide additional value added service,
> we may as well do it for orca.
> This pdf reader should be as simple as possible and we may not
> immidiately go into implementing very advanced features.
>
> if the community agrees to this at large, then I would take the initiative.
> happy hacking.
> Krishnakant.
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