Re: [orca-list] converting pdf to text

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

This is very exciting news, indeed.  Thanks for the improvements and
getting them integrated into the upstream package.  I'm looking
forward to the package being released for ArchLinux's rolling upgrade
hopefully soon.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 09:51:48AM +0530, leena chourey wrote:
> 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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