Re: [orca-list] Reading pdf files

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

For the untagged PDF files that I usually receive, the PDF reader in 
Chromium often gives best results. Others may have different 
experiences, of course.

Support for tagged PDF in Chromium has been discussed, but I don't know 
how far implementation has progressed.

On 10/11/21 10:39, Dave Hunt via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Firefox and Chromium will render pdf files; I've used a web browser and
> the Mate document viewer.  When using the document viewer, hit 'f7' and
> enable caret navigation.  Once it's enabled, reload the page with
> 'ctrl-r' or 'f5'.  Your system may also  have the utilities:  pdftotext
> or pdftohtml.  None of these options is ocr. Text, as images, will not
> be rendered. for that, you can install lios, which will, in turn,
> install teseract ocr.
>
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Dave  H.
>
>
>
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> Sent from my Think Penguin J4 laptop, running Trisquel GNU/Linux, version 9.
>
> On 11/10/21 10:29 AM, Guy Schlosser via orca-list wrote:
> > Hey there everyone, just curious. What is everyone using to read PDF files?
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