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Re: Another Nutty Idea

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RTT

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Date Posted: 15:35:38 08/28/05 Sun
In reply to: Aussie 's message, "Another Nutty Idea" on 07:47:46 08/26/05 Fri

It is an interesting idea. The big problem resides in the extraction of text in readable form. Most of pdf documents are written thinking in paper, so, extracting text contents need to isolate titles, text in columns, image captions,� Right now the PDFE text extraction routines are very basic and need to be improved to meet the essential requirements of this type of tool. In the next build I'm going to add a Read Out Loud tool to the text viewer and start, this way, to understand what is needed to get good mp3 files.

Regarding donations, all help is welcome :)
I'm developing a new web site and I will test the donations scheme to see if they are sufficient to help keeping this project free.

>RTT,
>I want to say that this tool keeps getting better and
>better. Great work.
>
>My problem. I read a lot of papers that are stored in
>PDF format. Your tool really helps me to manage these
>papers. One problem that I face is that the number of
>papers I need to read is greater then the time I have
>to sit in front of the computer.
>
>The idea. You currently provide the ability to pull
>the PDF apart into components. With those components
>that are text blocks could you provide a way to
>convert them to a mp3 file?
>
>If I could take these PDF papers and listen to them on
>my way to and from work this would save help save time
>and my eyes.
>
>These folks built something to do this but I believe
>you could make it really useful.
>
>http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/et/projects/mp3/d
>esign_pdf2mp3.html
>
>Again thanks for the great tool. Do you accept
>donations?

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