- From: Loretta Guarino Reid <lguarino@adobe.com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 12:32:32 -0800
- To: "Steven McCaffrey" <smccaffr@mail.nysed.gov>
- cc: Viral.Patel@exim.gov, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
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
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