Hi,
I actually have a number of options I use.
If the file is something major, and the google changing it to html fails,
as an attachment, I send the file to the robobraille service.
www.robobraille.org
using [email protected]
and providing your desired ending format can produce fine results much of
the time.
If that process fails, we still have pdftotext here at shellworld,
sometimes if the pdf is read only, that manages the file.
Yes, I have sent them to myself for the effort as well, again to my gmail
address
Most of the files I get go to gmail instead of here anyway, as they are
work related.
One more point about robobraille.
The service can convert epub files, and create mobi files too.
Kare
On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, dan d. wrote:
Regarding pdf attachments in gmail. In google search results some time ago pdf
files were also present in a converted to text format As a
choice. That is no longer the case unless someone knows how to activate it
again..
Thinking of your remark, have you tried sending a pdf attachment to yourself to
have a text version? The google search result versions were
always superior to after the fact conversions of pdf downloads.
On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Hi Travis,
I am curious. can you share examples of sites that require a gmail
account?
And yet do not need you to confirm anything by sending you an email to
that account?
Speaking personally, the basic html edition of gmail is profoundly needful
for me, especially as often things like pdf attachments get
automatically converted to html, and in lynx become plan text. Same for
word and docx files.
still, I am personally unaware of a site that requires the use of
gmail, the option to sign up with your gmail account, yes, but not an
actual mandate.
Do you mind sharing your experiences with this?
Karen
On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
For what it's worth, when I clicked on that link, it brought me to the google
page, and asked me if I was sure I wanted to turn on the html only (or
whatever it was) feature of gmail.?? I have a gmail account only because some
sites require it.?? I have never once actually checked said mail, and never
plan to.
But, it did work.
On 10/16/2021 4:30 AM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Sharing this, in case it helps others.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:07 +0000
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
Zachary Lee Andrews replied:
Am I missing something, the only thing I see in your message is a gmail
URL that doesn't work...
Right, gmail URLs are per-person. mail.google.com/mail/u/0 is the
mailbox of *your* primary logged-in google ID. For anyone else, that
URL means 'the message with this hash key in *my* mailbox', which is
vanishingly unlikely to exist; and if it did, it wouldn't be the same
message anyway.
If you want to forward text out of a gmail message, you need to forward
the text, not a gmail URL...
Bela<
PS: apologies to Zachary for mistakenly sending 1st copy of this to him
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