Hello,
this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, PDFs are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for anything else. ...
... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vision ...
Good afternoon.
I am providing another option that might help here.
robobraille,
www.robobraille.org
Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number of different formats, including .html
They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress.
As a test, consider sending your file to
convert at robobraille.org
correctly of course.
in the subjectline put html
leaving the body blank, and attach the file.
See if the .html file returned meets your needs.
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote:
Hello,
this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general,
PDFs
are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for
anything else. ...
Second sentence should read:
... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vision ...
I'm attempting to read a USDA document.[1]
The printed version of this document is marginally readable.
Tools such as "Atril Document Viewer" provide selected magnification.
For this particular document and monitor, 150% is comfortable. Requires re-positioning the viewpoint 500 to 600 times to read document.
For _this_ document, Atril can select all the text on a page in a manner that can be pasted in a "reasonable" manner to a Pluma document.
It will:
a. ignore actual graphics.
b. put title/headings/??? on a separate line.
c. all text between full page-width title/headings/??? will be
treated as a logical unit.
It will not:
1. put a blank line between paragraphs.
2. put a blank line above/below lines containing title/headings/???.
3. identify superscripts in some manner.
All this suggests that it should be able to extract text from a PDF and create a HTML document likely using only <p>, <br>, <sup>, and <li> in its <body>.
[1] https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf
_Thrifty Food Plan, 2021_
Food and Nutrition Service
August 2021
FNS-916
Good afternoon.
I am providing another option that might help here.
robobraille,
www.robobraille.org
Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a
number of different formats, including .html
They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress.
As a test, consider sending your file to
convert at robobraille.org
correctly of course.
in the subjectline put html
leaving the body blank, and attach the file.
See if the .html file returned meets your needs.
Best,
Karen
On Mon, 24 Jun 2024, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 06/24/2024 12:35 AM, Richard wrote:
Hello,
this very much depends on what you are expecting it to do. In general, >>> PDFs
are only meant to be viewed - and printed - they where never meant for >>> anything else. ...
Second sentence should read:
... only meant to be viewed by those with *NORMAL* vision ...
I'm attempting to read a USDA document.[1]
The printed version of this document is marginally readable.
Tools such as "Atril Document Viewer" provide selected magnification.
For this particular document and monitor, 150% is comfortable.
Requires re-positioning the viewpoint 500 to 600 times to read document.
For _this_ document, Atril can select all the text on a page in a
manner that can be pasted in a "reasonable" manner to a Pluma document.
It will:
a. ignore actual graphics.
b. put title/headings/??? on a separate line.
c. all text between full page-width title/headings/??? will be
treated as a logical unit.
It will not:
1. put a blank line between paragraphs.
2. put a blank line above/below lines containing title/headings/???.
3. identify superscripts in some manner.
All this suggests that it should be able to extract text from a PDF
and create a HTML document likely using only <p>, <br>, <sup>, and
<li> in its <body>.
[1]
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf
_Thrifty Food Plan, 2021_
Food and Nutrition Service
August 2021
FNS-916
I went to the site shortly after you posted.
*MY* browser (SeaMonkey 2.49.4 {32 bit Linux}) choked on it.
I didn't get a chance to visit local library to try another browser.
Forgot I had a copy of Firefox 68.10.0esr on my machine.
It ran fine.
I converted "https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf"
to both text and HTML.
The text version seems perfect.
The HTML version has problem of missing titles to several tables near
end of file. There are 15 tables one after another. All table *contents*
came thru OK. Only the last one had its associated title.
I'll give www.robobraille.org a heads-up about it.
As I've a peculiar local configuration of SeaMonkey, could another SM
user run a quick check so that I can report if their site has a problem
with SeaMonkey?
Richard Owlett composed on 2024-08-07 07:45 (UTC-0500):
I went to the site shortly after you posted.
*MY* browser (SeaMonkey 2.49.4 {32 bit Linux}) choked on it.
I didn't get a chance to visit local library to try another browser.
Forgot I had a copy of Firefox 68.10.0esr on my machine.
It ran fine.
I converted
"https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf"
to both text and HTML.
The text version seems perfect.
The HTML version has problem of missing titles to several tables near
end of file. There are 15 tables one after another. All table *contents*
came thru OK. Only the last one had its associated title.
I'll give www.robobraille.org a heads-up about it.
As I've a peculiar local configuration of SeaMonkey, could another SM
user run a quick check so that I can report if their site has a problem
with SeaMonkey?
The PDF loads fine here in current SeaMonkey 2.53.18.2 64bit. I haven't used 2.49.x in five or so years. I use the static build hosted on http://archive.seamonkey-project.org/releases/ .
Karen Lewellen (12024-06-24):
Good afternoon.
I am providing another option that might help here.
robobraille,
www.robobraille.org
Provides services, free of charge, that will convert pdf files to a number >> of different formats, including .html
They provide audio, mobi, and convert epub files too..but I digress.
As a test, consider sending your file to
convert at robobraille.org
correctly of course.
in the subjectline put html
leaving the body blank, and attach the file.
See if the .html file returned meets your needs.
Interesting.
Do you know how they fare with math? I mean real, non-trivial formulas produced by LaTeX like you would find in
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05929 ?
(I know, I could test. I will if you do not know the answer.)
Regards,
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