[Blindmath] PDF to xhtml

[Abi James]

There is a prototype tool for converting PDF to LaTeX developed at the
University of Birmingham but it will only work on PDFs created using certain
fonts http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/groupings/reasoning/sdag/submit.php.

As suggested getting hold of the LaTeX source files is much better as PDFs a
generally difficult to extract back to an accessible format. If you do try
to use a convertor of PDF  to html check how they deal with the equations.
If the math is converted to MathML or LaTeX it will be editable and probably
accessible (depending on  the browser and A.T. you are using) but many
convertors default to image output for equations.

Regards

Abi 


Abi James
Assistive Technology & Accessibility Consultant 
Assistive Learning Ltd

WAIS, ECS , University of Southampton
http://access.ecs.soton.ac.uk 

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Godfrey,
Jonathan via Blindmath
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 4:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Blindmath] PDF to xhtml

Hi all,

Tim is right that the only option for pdf to a readable html document
directly is to use OCR via Infty.

If at all possible though, getting the source LaTeX files makes considerably
more sense. You can then convert to html using tex4ht which comes with
miktex   or the online converter at
http://convertlatex.com/

I just googled the keywords convert pdf to html, and actually ran the last
three together and found some things tht I hadn't seen before including an
application to do this conversion. I'll check them out when time allows.

Jonathan


-----Original Message-----
From: Blindmath [mailto:blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Tim in 't
Veld via Blindmath
Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2015 8:20 a.m.
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Cc: Tim in 't Veld
Subject: Re: [Blindmath] PDF to xhtml

Dear Maurizio,
Infty Reader should have all the functionality you need. See
www.inftyproject.org.
Tim
Tim

On 11/24/2015 7:42 PM, Maurizio Gabelli via Blindmath wrote:
> Hi,
> Any good software to convert algebra pdf to xhtml? or latex also...
> Best regards,
> Maurizio
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