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.

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