Re: PDF - Text Extraction File

The referenced standards  indicate that end users will draw upon the tools 
that work for their individual adaptive technology tools.
Nothing about our experience is comparative, with my sharing, as you have 
shared the tools to which   I would use for this task.
Given how many ways Robobraille can accommodate, from creating audio in 
many languages to generating braille output, its  results  share yet 
another  worthy example illustrating the file problems.
Kare



On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, David Woolley wrote:

> On 17/10/2025 20:31, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>  Unable to convert the PDF document as it seems to be protected
>
> I can see no indication of protection.  None of the tools I used on it has 
> any difficulty in getting text from it, and all the visual ones can get the 
> whole end user contents.  I tried Firefox, the Debian PDF viewer, Inkscape, 
> and pdf2text.  The Debian viewer reports: "Security:  No".
>
> As I already said, although the posting hasn't come back yet, the basic 
> problems are that the text isn't structured in a way that is useful without 
> knowledge of its visual placement, and key topological information needed to 
> actually use the map to navigate, is only present in terms of layout and 
> purely graphical elements.
>
> Also, as noted, it is produced by Adobe Illustrator, which is not an unusual 
> tool, although it is a very visually oriented tool.
>
>

Received on Friday, 17 October 2025 20:13:54 UTC