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There's a thread about this sort of
thing on the Emacspeak list. I will forward it to you if you
like. I heard something about the ODF thing. I think it was the
state of MA or something. I can imagine there was an outcry. You
see, Open Ofice hasn't been accessible in Windows for very long.
They wer working on geting it to work with ia2accessibility but it
doesn't seem to have worked. FS and GwMicro have largely ignored
it in favor of the commercial packages. So, if you have a
situation where people are about to lose their jobs because of an
inaccessible file format, you can bet your pants there'd be an
outcry. Most people don't really know about Linux, you see.
Alex M On 8/1/2012 8:14 PM, Kyle wrote: I use pdftotext all the time with a good deal of success. As a side note, is there any similar tool yet that can convert a PDF document to an ODF format or Latex or similar open and unencumbered format that is not controlled by a single company? These things are just as cross-platform and can be made just as secure. In fact, for security, nothing beats an encrypted filesystem. I will say again, why in the world did so many people come to let a single company (Adobe) get so much control over our documents? BTW, I read somewhere that one state in the U.S. either switched or tried to switch all their public documents to ODF, but when they did this, there was a huge outcry from visually impaired people who, instead of complaining about this somehow being bad for accessibility, should have instead worked with developers to either make existing applications accessible to screen readers or develop new applications to read and write ODF documents. ~Kyle --
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