[liblouis-liblouisxml] Translating PDF to Braille
- From: Michael Whapples <mwhapples@xxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 16:54:22 +0100
Hello,
Now I have to be honest, although I am asking this I am not optimistic
of a great solution existing. How might one go about translating a PDF
to Braille?
One possible way I am thinking of is to use a tool to convert the file
to some sort of XML (eg. pdftohtml I think has an option for XML). Now
this might introduce errors (I haven't really found anything which can
extract the text in a good way reliably, any suggestions of applications
would be good). Then I think we would be able to use liblouisxml on the
XML (this may require some configuration files).
Unfortunately I think all the PDFs I am dealing with are untagged and
will probably need much work to get anything sensible out (eg. the
source PDFs have margin notes, diagrams with text labels embedded in
them, etc which lead to lots of stray text appearing in the main text flow).
If anyone has any views/suggestions on this or even know of a working
solution I would be grateful.
Thank you
Michael Whapples
For a description of the software and to download it go to
http://www.jjb-software.com
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