Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. I think what you're trying to do is quite difficult. It's a bit easier than OCR, but still hard enough that it's not well supported by any tool that I know.

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 01 Mar 06:55 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > A suggested tool? > > I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", > > will solve your problems. > > It can chan

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:58 AM, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on ma

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 07:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? With that in mind I had already posted to a list fo

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. They certainly don't write it that way, so perhaps they have a source website where the original text is written? -dsr-

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 04:44:56 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. > Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. > > pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining > format of original. I

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/01/2021 06:22 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\

Re: Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 01.03.2021 15:44, Richard Owlett wrote: A suggested tool? I can't suggest a converter, but maybe sane PDF viewer, like "evince", will solve your problems. It can change font size, page layout and has other useful capabilities like index\bookmarks and text search. For me reading documents in

Problem converting manual in PDF to HTML for on screen viewing

2021-03-01 Thread Richard Owlett
A program I wish to use distributes its manual as a PDF file. Due to vision problems I wish to convert it to HTML for onscreen viewing. pdf2htmlEX is an inappropriate tool as it is too focused on maintaining format of original. Its rigidity results in a fixed number of *characters* per line irr