[Blindmath] Problems For reading PDF Files off Mathematics

[Michael Whapples]

Here is a link to one of the research projects I know of, looks like 
they may have an online version of the tool, but I know nothing of how 
well it works.

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/groupings/reasoning/sdag/maxtract.php

Yes it is very important to be able to read papers if you are going to 
do research, or even if you want to read around the subject for other 
authors on the same topic as course material.

Michael Whapples
On 15/05/2013 15:24, Lucas Radaelli wrote:
> Does anybody use Infty Reader  regularly?
>
> I tried the trial version and this made me decide that I am not going
> to spend almost a thousand dollars! on it.
>
> I was trying  to convert the articles from the I3E website into an
> accessible format. the program recognized some of the equations, but I
> still needed to send the file for a person to check if everything was
> OK. Most of the time, it wasn't and the person needed to rewrite the
> equations...
>
> Seriously? I can't see the time when I leave university. Back in time
> I wanted to be a researcher  in the computer science area, but now, I
> just want to get my degree and work  on something that I have some
> progress. there's no research without bibliography finding, book
> reading, and that's not just one, two, or even ten articles. If you
> want to do a research you should read lots of articles to develop
> something new.
>
> Since I don't have  no one but friends to adapt the  articles for me,
> researching is not an option anymore....
> that's sad.
>
>
> 2013/5/15, Andy B. <sonfire11 at gmail.com>:
>> And in most cases, the algebraic symbols will not get read by JAWS. I am
>> dealing with the same problem.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Pranav
>> Lal
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:00 AM
>> To: 'Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics'
>> Subject: Re: [Blindmath] Problems For reading PDF Files off Mathematics
>>
>> 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."
>>>
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