[Blindmath] Problems For reading PDF Files off Mathematics

[Michael Whapples]

Didn't know that it won't work when the math is positioned text characters.

One can always work around that limitation by converting the PDF to an 
image format such as tiff (ImageMagick is a opensource tool which should 
be able to do that).

Michael Whapples
On 15/05/2013 08:00, Pranav Lal wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Infty Reader would work if we were dealing with images saved as PDF files. I
> have encountered some PDF files that have the text which is readable with a
> screen reader but things like fractions are laidout visually so if we take a
> fraction like 1/2 then 1 will be on one line and the 2 will be on the line
> below that.
>
> Pranav
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Michael
> Whapples
> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:00 PM
> To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics
> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Problems For reading PDF Files off Mathematics
>
> As far as I know the only thing currently available is the infty-reader
> (www.inftyproject.org) which will do math OCR on the PDF. I do not know
> whether the cost will be an issue though.
>
> I understand there are other projects out there trying to deal with this
> issue but I do not think any of them are yet to the stage of being ready
> for users.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On 15/05/2013 07:24, Radha wrote:
>> Friends, as my subject line indicates I have many books of mathematics
>> In PDF format, but I feell that I can not read The fractional number I
>> have changed jaws and Adobe Reader but in vain.
>> I have installed jaws 14.0 and Adobe Reader 11.0 now. I have also
>> shown the books to my sister, she can read these books very properly
>> But the jaws is not reading it.
>> So Please tell me that how can I solve the sums of Fractions In these
> Books?
>> Do we have any software in additional?
>> Thanks.......
>> -
>> Cheers,
>> Radha
>> "Everything you want in your life is waiting for you an inch outside
>> your comfort zone, and an inch inside your effort."
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Blindmath mailing list
>> Blindmath at nfbnet.org
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath_nfbnet.org
>> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Blindmath:
>> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindmath_nfbnet.org/mwhapples%40aim.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blindmath mailing list
> Blindmath at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> Blindmath:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindmath_nfbnet.org/pranav.lal%40gmail.co
> m
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blindmath mailing list
> Blindmath at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/blindmath_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Blindmath:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/blindmath_nfbnet.org/mwhapples%40aim.com