Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:16:23 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@telenix.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can i split a pdf file? Message-ID: <20090126091623.a0b50f64.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090126080618.GA51983@thought.org> References: <20090126001822.GA38314@thought.org> <20090126005156.GJ66858@comcast.net> <497D0FF3.6090402@telenix.org> <20090126080618.GA51983@thought.org>
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > Thanks, Gents, > > But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based > tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to > speech program) couldn't decode it. This is a typical problem with "poorly engineered" PDFs where the author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across the Web, too). A good tool to check if the PDF file can be (audibly) read is the use of the tool pdftotext from the port xpdf. % pdftotext bla.pdf && less bla.txt Then, even the FF speech plugin should work correctly - as long as the PDF file contains decodable text. If it's just a bunch of images, well, what are we expecting, hm? FF-speech: "You see a pretty image of some text..." :-) -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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