[BlindMath] How good is Adobe Acrobat's conversion of PDF to HTML?

[Susan Kelmer]

Oh no.  No.  Don't do this. Adobe Acrobat's ability to OCR is quite limited, and it does not do a good job at it, no matter what the output is.


Susan Kelmer 
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From: BlindMath <blindmath-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Fine via BlindMath
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 10:37 AM
To: Blind Math list for those interested in mathematics <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Cc: Jonathan Fine <jfine2358 at gmail.com>; Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>
Subject: [BlindMath] How good is Adobe Acrobat's conversion of PDF to HTML?

Hi

In response to a message to texhax, Philip Taylor wrote:

> Kellee asked particularly about *Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, Sixth
Edition,* by John D. Anderson, Jr.  The PDF of this book is available on the web, and Adobe Acrobat appears able to convert it into HTML (the resulting file is 9MB in size, with 3621 support files totalling 25,8MB).
I have no way of knowing whether the HTML would be accessible to Kellee's student, but I would be more than happy to make the HTML available to her if she were interested.

I'm grateful to Phil for making this effort. Is there anyone on this list willing to look at this HTML and to express an opinion? I'll then forward the response to TeX developers.

If the HTML is good, we have a result. If the HTML is bad then we have test data for an accessibility checker.

best wishes

Jonathan
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