[Blindmath] problems reading PDF scientific documents

[Michael Whapples]

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