>How do you use the google service?
If Google finds a PDF it will offer to extract the text for you.
I don't know whether this is dependent on detecting whether your
browser is sans the required plugin. If you find an online PDF
you want the text from, you could try feeding its URL to Google
to get Google to offer the extraction.
>I think the reason why web sites make these PDF documents available
>is that they want to include pictures and diagrams and graphs.
True, but they also want to control the printed layout, and their
designers have been sucked into the Adobe way.
>Sometimes you might just want to read the text just in order to
>figure out what the device does before you even think about messing
>with it.
Wise words. I wish there were trustworthy "FM"s for more situations.
Jake
