On Mon, 2025-06-02 at 13:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm over 80. My only phone just died. > I just bought an ATT CL84207 desk set which came with minuscule 5"x7" > manual. > Fortunately an ATT site has PDFs of manuals. > > *HOWEVER* only BOLD text is in a saturated image. > All other text is in a marginally readable pale grey. > > Is the a PDF reader in Debian repository that will coerce ALL text to > appear as a saturated black? > I assume ATT set things up to treat everything as an image. > If I get something with readable characters, all illustrations will > just > be black blobs. That is OK as paper copy that came with phone is > usable. > Also Atril can display those images adequately. > > Help please.
If the PDF is images, there's (IIRC) a program called "ocrmypdf" to turn it into text, which you can then read in your favorite editor. If it's text in PDF, maybe LibreOffice can help.