... or if you want a command line tool try pdftotext from the xpdf-utils package. Even works with encrypted password-protected PDF files which came as a pleasant surprise to me over the weekend.
Regards, Garry -- Garry Turkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Beth Koenig wrote: > Open the pdf and use ctrl + a and then ctrl + c then open gedit and > paste. You can read the document quite well in gedit. That assumes > that the person that made the pdf didn't use image based text. But > most people use text text so it is accessible. > > > -- > Beth Koenig > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Director of Deaf Blind Services > Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center > 2960 Main Street A100 > Irvine, CA 92614 > http://www.deafadvocacy.org/dbs > Health, safety, and productivity are the cornerstones of independence. > At the Orange County Deaf Advocacy Center we provide the training and > services necessary for the deaf and disabled to achieve equally and > independence in all areas of life. > > > On 6/17/07, mike coulombe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, is there a program to convert a pdf file to a text file so it can be red >> using orca. >> Mike. >> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 000749-2, 06/16/2007), Outbound message >> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean >> >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >> > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
