Re: [orca-list] pdf reader

[Krishnakant <hackingkk gmail com>]

On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 20:45 +0100, Paul Hunt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've not had any luck getting Orca to actually read any pdf text inside 
> Adobe Acrobat although the application's menus and dialogues are accessible.
>
> What I do is to load the pdf into Acrobat and use the file menu > "save 
> as text" option to generate a text file then read the resulting file in 
> gedit.
Ah, that can be done with pdf2text as well.

> I've tried several other pdf readers available in the Ubuntu 
> repositories with no luck. Some of them have accessible menus and 
> dialogues like Acrobat but none actually expose the text to Orca.
> Yes that way evince is also accessible.

Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

> On 28/09/09 20:33, Krishnakant wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:25 -0400, Storm Dragon wrote:
> >    
> > > Hi,
> > > Are there any pdf readers that work with Orca?  I read on the
> > > live.gnome.org site that adobe acrobat was accessible, but when I
> > > installed it it didn't even work as well as the default reader
> > > installed with Ubuntu.  Thanks for suggestions.
> > >      
> > This is a pending issue and I was following it up for a few months on
> > the link provided by wil.
> > Actually acrobat reader seems to be accessible but only on 32 bit
> > systems.
> > As it is a proprietory software, we don't have the freedom to modify and
> > make it better.
> > The default reader evince which comes with ubuntu is still not
> > accessible.
> > I am now doing a final attempt to get some final year students to take
> > up this task.
> > Let's hope this works.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
> >
> >
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