On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 00:06:18 -0800, Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org> wrote:
> Thanks, Gents,
>
> But according to one smallish pdf file that I send to a web based
> tool, it was not a real pdf. Or, more accurately, it (the pdf to
> speech program) couldn't decode it.
This is a typical problem with "poorly engineered" PDFs where the
author puts in the text as images (you'll see this stupidity across
the Web, too).
A good tool to check if the PDF file can be (audibly) read is the
use of the tool pdftotext from the port xpdf.
% pdftotext bla.pdf && less bla.txt
Then, even the FF speech plugin should work correctly - as long as
the PDF file contains decodable text. If it's just a bunch of images,
well, what are we expecting, hm? FF-speech: "You see a pretty image of
some text..." :-)
--
Polytropon
>From Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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