[guispeak] Re: Fw: eBook Accessibility
- From: "david poehlman" <david.poehlman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 11:30:24 -0500
It has limitations though and if you have a scanner and an ocr package such
as omni page and some others, including kursweil 1,000 and openbook, you can
also "extract" the text from a pdf file. Also, a word about drm if I may.
Publishers at least here in this country have a "right" to publish
information in locked form. A lot of people who did not do this have been
severely burned but I believe the technology is becoming mature and that
there are or soon will be ways to provide drm for print materials that will
also make it possible to specially access that information. Adobe with v7
have worked quite hard on providing as much of this capability as
possibility while at the same time, allowing publishers who have a need to
who purchase and use their creation tools to provide protection for their
content. The battle between security and access to content is a complex one
and no one in their right mind wants to turn people out but there are
busines decisions that must be made. Some of the decisions were made quite
some time ago and cannot be easily changed. Many publishers are still using
tools other than those adobe markets to create their goods and adobe has no
controll over tools other than their own. I did not read the ebook article,
but I've been following these issues for quite some time now and although I
am dismayed that we can't have access to everything we should be able to
have access to, When documents are accessible and you are using the right
combination of equipment, things are getting much better. What we need to
do is be as much a part of the solution as we can.
Johnnie Apple Seed
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From: "Laura Eaves" <leaves1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:01 AM
Subject: [guispeak] Fw: eBook Accessibility
Hi all -- this is a followup to the amazon ebook post I just sent. Thought
it was interesting.
Happy reading!
--le
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Jones" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 9:46 PM
Subject: RE: eBook Accessibility
also, there's a program called pdf magic
you can buy it from
www.readingmadeeasy.com
along with other similar tools.
this program performs ocr on pdf files thus extracting even the locked ones.
it costs around $60 and I have found it very useful.
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From: Programming-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:Programming-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Will
Pearson
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 3:42 PM
To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx; guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: eBook Accessibility
Hi;
I've just downloaded a few e-books from Amazon, and thought I would notify
you of the current state of affairs, as books are useful in a range of
situations.
Whilst Adobe still allow content publishers to disallow content extraction
by access technology, meaning screen readers won't be able to read books
that have had this option disallowed, more publishers are allowing it. I
downloaded about three books published by John Wiley and son. All these had
content extraction by access technology allowed, which was something Wiley
turned off in their e-books only six or so months ago. So, it looks like
Wiley books are now accessible, as well as those from some smaller
publishers.
Whilst persuading publishers to allow access is a difficult task, and one
Adobe should have taken the lead on by not allowing them to disable content
extraction by access technology, it does seem as some of the big publishers
are now gaining social consciences.
Will Pearson
Microsoft MVP
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