[Blindmath] problems reading PDF scientific documents

Tue Jun 5 23:06:12 UTC 2012

Thanks for your advice

Michael,

Do you think the infty reader really works? I've tried the trial
version, but the result is so strange... it means there are characters
left. Is there anything that I have to do before processing the pdf
documentt? I've got another proble now.It only recognizes the
alfanumerics characters and not the Maths characters, I don't know
why, but the out file is a "pdf2txt" instead of "txt.
Could you also tell me how you do to convert Word format to LaTeX too?
I've tried the Grindeq, but I think it doesn't recognize all the
document.
Thank you for the  clue on the new software , I will be watching.

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Lucas,

Exactly! I'm from Curitiba! =)
In the graduation phase the teachers translated the documents for me, some
thing like this: an integral became I [i, j] f(x) dx...
But now I'm taking the master degree, there are lots of materials to
read, we can't keep translating like that.
And take this: what to do when the teacher doesn't know LaTex?
Of course, let's keep talking!

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José,

I've seen other softwares in the same line, I mean, softwares to edit
LaTeX documents... but how to solve  the reading problem?

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Best wishes,

Géssica Michelle

2012/6/1, Michael Whapples <mwhapples at aim.com>:
> Hello,
> Further to that last message, one of the projects I am aware of which is
> working on the problem of accessing maths in PDF is maxtract and the
> blog for it can be found at
> http://researchblogs.cs.bham.ac.uk/math-access/category/maxtract/
>
> This is work in progress and I don't know when they plan to have
> something usable out.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 31/05/2012 10:36, Michael Whapples wrote:
>> On 31/05/2012 01:26, Lucas Radaelli wrote:
>>> Hey Jessica,
>>>
>>> If you are from Curitiba we are from the same city! :)
>>>
>>> I have got a lot of problems in this area too. Specially in Brazil
>>> where it seems that nobody understands about that to give us a hand.
>>>
>>>
>>> What my teachers have done during graduation was create the scientific
>>> documents already in LaTeX, and they offered the normal pdf to other
>>> students. The program that michael mentioned I have never used yet,
>>> but gonna check it out. I did not oppenned the website yet, but I am
>>> almost sure that it is more than 500 dolars... I hope that I am wrong!
>>>
>>> You can send me a mail too, we can keep in contact to finde solutions
>>> together here in Brazil.
>>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012/5/30, Michael Whapples<mwhapples at aim.com>:
>>>> The infty reader www.inftyproject.org may help. I understand other
>>>> things
>>>> are being developed but this the only working solution for now.
>>>>
>>>> Michael Whapples
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPod
>>>>
>>>> On 30 May 2012, at 22:24, Géssica Michelle dos Santos
>>>> Pereira<gessicamichelle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am Gessica, from the south of Brazil, with visual impairment, having
>>>>> difficulties in reading PDF scientific documents, when they show
>>>>> formulae.. I use screen reader Jaws and I've heard that LaTeX or
>>>>> MathML might be useful but would you know how to convert the PDF
>>>>> documents into these formats? .....moreover...how to use them?  I
>>>>> wonder if you could help me find the solution.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Gessica Michelle
>>>>>
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>> Yes, unfortunately the infty reader software is expensive. It is worth
>> noting though that infty reader is OCR software for maths, so could
>> put printed maths from paper into an electronic format such as LaTeX
>> or MathML as well.
>>
>> Hopefully one of the other projects I know of will allow access to PDF
>> at a lower cost.
>>
>> In many cases the PDF is created from another format such as LaTeX so
>> it might be worth contacting the author to see if they can provide the
>> document in another format.
>>
>> Michael Whapples
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