That’s good to hear. Thanks, Karen. Donna
> On May 14, 2024, at 7:02 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > > Hi Donna, > Speaking personally, rtf or txt will fair better. > That is likely because of the different flavors of word, and the goal of > robobraille to get items to the simplest format. > Hope that resonates, > Karen > > > > On Tue, 14 May 2024, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: > >> Thanks Robert and Karen. Robobraille is an interesting suggestion that >> hadn’t occurred to me. I own Duxbury, so I’ve never used it before. I just >> tried a sample file. It wasn’t problem free, but I chose to convert it to >> Word. When I opened it in Pages, Pages inserted text boxes, which made it >> hard to read. But I’m wondering if I’ll get better results if I go with Txt >> or RTF. This definitely warrants further explanation. >> >> Again, thank you for the suggestion. >> Cheers, >> Donna >> >>> On May 14, 2024, at 4:13 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Donna, >>> Why not send the files to robobraille? >>> www.robobraille.org >>> via an email address, >>> conv...@robobraille.org >>> the pdf files can be converted to text in a matter of moments. >>> You also support a service providing this service in many formats and >>> language around the world...and its free. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Karen >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 14 May 2024, 'Donna Goodin' via MacVisionaries wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> While I’m in Italy, I’ll be taking language classes. I may have a need to >>>> convert pdfs to text, and I’m hoping to do it on either my phone or my >>>> iPad. Anyone have a recommendation for an app that will do this? I know >>>> ABBYY will, but it seems kind of like overkill. >>>> Cheers, >>>> Donna >>>> >>>> -- >>>> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >>>> Visionaries list. >>>> >>>> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or >>>> if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the >>>> owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >>>> >>>> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark >>>> at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >>>> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >>>> >>>> The archives for this list can be searched at: >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >>>> --- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/D103577B-7356-4774-A801-F731AAB7CAE6%40me.com. >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/FA96FB27-1B69-47EC-9E06-D37FEEC000A7%40me.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/C125ECF2-9B1E-4446-8740-DBCD348C6471%40me.com.
