Re: [orca-list] PDF documents reading?

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

Austin Seraphin <austin austinseraphin com> wrote:
> I've wrestled with this myself recently. The Atril document viewer in
> Mate doesn't work well, and an open bug exists. The Gnome document
> viewer does seem to work, opening it and hitting F7 to turn on the carat
> works. I still have issues with scrolling, perhaps someone has some tips
> on that. 

The older (but still effective) solution is to run pdftotext on the PDf file,
then to use your preferred tools to read the text file that it produces.

There are various options, for example -raw (which is helpful with
multi-column documents), or -layout, which preserves the page layout of the
PDF document.