[bcab] Re: PDF to DAISY

Just to add.

You can make text documents from pdf using Omni page 14 and above. I think a
similar function is also in Fine reader 9.


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-----Original Message-----
From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Michael Whapples
Sent: 30 April 2008 13:15
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF to DAISY

I don't know much about daisy format, but can add the following to Tim's
reply.

It is also possible to convert PDF documents to HTML. I think adobe did
have an online tool (which is free) to do this, but I am unsure if adobe
still provide it. If the adobe tool doesn't exist, there are other tools
which you can install on your computer for this.

Thos PDF documents which have come from a scanned document (so have the
data stored as an image) can still be read if you use some OCR software
on it. I am quite sure that omnipage pro has this feature (it could
output to various formats, MSWord, RTF, etc), I am not so sure how many
others have it.

Michael Whapples
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 02:02 -0400, BCAB_Digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> ------------------------------
> 
> From: "Tim Gebbels" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF to DAISY
> Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:23:22 +0100
> 
> Hi Karina.  If they're untagged documents I presume you could save
> them as text files and then just convert those using whatever software
> tool does that sort of thing.  Personally I haven't a clue!  But are
> you sure they're readable in the first place?  In my experience a lot
> of PDF documents generated in office environments are scanned images
> in which case you haven't a hope I don't think.
> Tim Gebbels
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Karina Gregory 
>   To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; braillenote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:05 PM
>   Subject: [bcab] PDF to DAISY
> 
>   HI all, 
> 
>    
> 
>   I've got these two PDF files, please can someone advise me as to how
> I can convert them to DAISY so that I can read them on my BrailleNote
> PK?  Step by step instructions would be much appreciated.  
> 
>    
> 
>   There's also something else that I don't understand - once I have
> converted a PDF file to DAISY format, how do I know how to navigate it
> as I'm aware that each DAISY book is navigated differently but I don't
> know how you find out how to navigate it.
> 
>    
> 
>   Thank you in advance for your help.
> 
>    
> 
>   Karina
> 
> 
> 

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