PDF to @Voice

Re:PDF to @Voice (Support)

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:15:20 GMT

I tested now WappWolf.com, but the quality of PDF text extraction is very bad. It extracts text as just one continuous line, without any line breaks, paragraph sub-division, combining hyphenated words, for some more complex layouts extracts text in a wrong, illogical order, and incorrectly encodes foreign characters. I could probably do better than that with some of the still bad extractors I tested so far.

Will consider doing this - if I won't get discouraged completely with many users rating my app "very bad" 1*, e.g. for hearing bad quality voice, instead of installing and buying a better TTS Engine and voices from Google Play...

Greg

Re:PDF to @Voice (Support)

Sat, 04 May 2013 08:09:31 GMT

Thank you, Tim! I'll look closer at WappWolf.com, curious to find out how good their PDF to text is. I found many files that don't convert correctly with any such tool I tested, extracting contents in wrong order. Wonder if WappWolf's tool is any better. Thank you for sharing!

Greg

PDF to @Voice (timconstan)

Fri, 03 May 2013 23:27:33 GMT

Link @Voice to Dropbox

In Dropbox, create a folder called ReadAttach

Create an account in IFTTT.com
Create a new IFTTT rule

If email

New email labeled

readattach

Then dropbox
Add file from URL
AttachmentUrl
Dropbox folder path: ReadAttach

Create an account at WappWolf.com
Create a new WappWolf action

- Link to Dropbox
- Select ReadAttach folder
- Select PDF to TXT
- Add Action
- Save it in Dropbox
- Apps/@Voice Aloud Reader

To Use

Address an e-mail to trigger@iftt.com
Change the message subject to include #readattach
Attach the PDF file