[duxuser] Re: Converting PDF to Braille?
- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:36:14 -0400
Thomas:
Many producers of PDF documents, add layers of protection, to prevent you from
saving their PDF documents to other formats, in order to protect their
copyright materials and to stop pirate copying.
In that case, the only way, if the producers of the PDF material allow you to
do so, would be to print the document and then scan the resulting hardcopy,
using OCR software, convert the file to Word format, for example, then import
the .doc file into DBT.
Not environmentally-friendly but, needs must when the devil drives.
sincerely:
Dave Durber
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Poulk
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 12:18 PM
Subject: [duxuser] Re: Converting PDF to Braille?
There is a way: Open your pdf in adobe, select file, select "save as". When
the save as window opens, go to the bottom and open the "save as type" box. You
can select .htm/.html, .doc, 2 .txt types, .rtf, and other file formats. I have
done this a lot, and it usually works well. You will use a lot of formatting,
and some information that may be of a graphic nature or in text boxes, but you
will get a document that you can edit and import into Duxbury.
Hope this helps.
Thomas G. Poulk
Director, Materials Production Dept.
The Hadley School for the Blind
700 Elm Street
Winnetka, IL 60093
Phone: 847-784-2717
Fax: 847-784-9688
tom@xxxxxxxxxx
Proper prior communication, coordination and cooperation results in proper
performance.
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Don Moore
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:32 AM
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Converting PDF to Braille?
I've downloaded a rather large user's manual in PDF format but would like to
have it in Braille.
Is there some kind of plug-in to convert the PDF file to word? Or even
Duxbury?
Thanks for any suggestions, and I know I could convert it to text and then
bring it into word, but it sounds like a whole lot of formatting.
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