Re: [orca-list] converting pdf to text

[leena chourey <leenagour gmail com>]

Hello 

This is to inform you all that the poppler community 
has reviewed and committed the work submitted by us to improve the 
accessibility and usability of pdftohtml option. Also the community 
informed that new option "pdftohtml -s <file.pdf>" will be 
included in poppler >= 0.15.1.

With regards
Leena Chourey
For Accessibility Team 
CDAC Mumbai

On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:42 AM, leena chourey <leenagour gmail com> wrote:

Hello Steve,
Yes, for accessibility point of view this enhancement is done. We have already submitted the patch regarding the same and expecting to include with upstream product. Discussion is going on with poppler developers, no major changes. As it will over, we will notify to orca-list also.

For now patch is attached here, if required. You can apply this patch on poppler-0.14.0 and give feedback to us and poppler list also.

With regards,
Leena C

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com> wrote:

I have pdftohtml 0.14.0 and the man page does not mention a -s
option.  Was this something you locally patched into the program? if
so, could you folks get this to be integrated into the upstream
product for all to use?  I think a single file of html output would be
a nice featue.

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 09:58:05AM +0530, leena chourey wrote:
> Hello list,
> Yes, its useful and in the similar way you can use pdftohtml for simple and
> complex output. All these are utility functions provided by poppler library
> and xpdf, evince all uses this library to render pdf.
> "pdftohtml -c <filename>" is for complex output that generates page wise
> formatted (fonts, size, 2-column, images etc) html page for each page of pdf
> file.
> Accessibility team at CDAC mumbai has included another option "pdftohtml -s
> <filename>" that makes a pdf file more accessible and usable. It produce
> single html file for corresponding pdf file, so that user need not to open
> each page separately.
>
> With regards
> Leena C
> For accessibility team @ CDAC Mumbai
>
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Nadeau <j nadeau charter net>wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I just wanted to let everyone know about this if you didn't know
> > already. If you have xpdf installed you can convert pdf to text really
> > easy. This is how I do it. First I have the pdf in my home folder then I
> > go to the terminal and type this
> >
> > pdftotext filename
> >
> > then hit enter and when it is done you will find the same named pdf as a
> > text file in your home folder it works great.
> >
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