Re: Accesibility of PDF files & editing them

By the time the information is in PDF, it is extremely hard to reconstruct the 
corresponding latex. However, I have heard latex or MathML suggested as the 
appropriate Alt description for an equation in a PDF file. I'm not aware of 
any assistive technology that would do anything but treat it as text, however.

	Loretta

> Hi Loretta and all:
> 
>      I have a slightly off topic (specific topic of alt text/forms in PDF) =
> but it may be related.  I was interested lately in reading PDF's that =
> contain equations.  One example is
> Richard Feynman's nobel lecture
> http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/1965/feynman-lecture.pdf
> The Adobe translation tools and accessibility  plugin work well on the =
> text portion, but the equations, as one might guess, get a bit garbled.
> I was wondering if there might be a PDF to latex converter perhaps?
> Might there be other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks, =20
> 
> Steve
> 
> Steve McCaffrey
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> ITS
> NYSED