Max, Would something like 'festival' in conjunction with a 'pdftotext' command be a start point?
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 12:17 +0200, Max Nicosia wrote: > Hello there, > > I am a Comp Sci student (St Andrews, UK) helping out in a project (at > DTU, Denmark), that aims at making computers more accessible to blind > people. > > They are particularly interested in making PDF documents more > accessible to blind people, so I have been asked to focus on this. > > From trying different PDF readers from the repositories, I believe the > kind of functionality they are after has not yet been implemented. As > such I would like to know if you know of anyone that is already > working towards this for evince (so I can contribute) or if if I would > need to start from scratch. > > DTU is interested in getting this functionality working for any PDF > reader and in the shortest amount of time, so I have also contacted > Okular's development team. > I haven't looked at either implementation yet, but as there are some > time constraints I will most likely contribute to whichever would take > less time. > > Could anyone please give me some feedback so I can move onto the next > stage? > > Thanks a lot > Max > > _______________________________________________ > evince-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
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