[senit] converting PDF files

Hi Alice,

Just to add my 5p's worth - some pdf tools online:
Free PDF to Word converter: <http://www.hellopdf.com/download.php>
Free editing online of PDF's <http://www.pdfhammer.com/>
And lastly - and perhaps the most useful: scanr: <http://www.scanr.com/> 
- it converts a image file to a pdf - but the clever bit is that it 
extracts the text. I use it often in the library - take a picture of a 
page on my camera phone, send it to scanr and wallah! full text in my 
inbox :)

hth
w

Matthew Harrison wrote:
> Hi Alice,
>
> Another option to consider could be the Easy Converter software from
> Dolphin.  I know very little about it but saw a demo of it at BETT this
> week and it looked very user-friendly.  If I understood correctly, you
> could convert a PDF into Braille or audio format.  You could also add
> alt text behind images (for screen readers and the like).
>
> I picked up a demo disk, but am yet to run it, I'm afraid.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Matt
>
> Matt Harrison
> Research and Technology Development Manager
> Portland College
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alice Chenneour
> Randall
> Sent: 10 January 2008 20:45
> To: senit
> Subject: [senit] converting PDF files
>
> I'm sorry that this might appear obvious to all you technical wizards
> out there - we are a VI service and have been relatively fortunate in
> recieving the PDF files of a number of text books, dierctly from the
> publishers. The difficulty is that we are having no success in
> converting these files into a format that allows us to manipulate the
> material. Any help would be very welcome.
>   Many thanks
>   Alice Chenneour Randall
>   Oxfordshire VISS
>
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