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| robin_watts_mac | chrisl_away: The picsel testdocs are gathered from a webspider that walked across the web gathering any files it found of the right type. | 07:25.42 |
| | The files are gathered blindly. Doesn't surprise me that the gs init files are in there as we are highly visible. | 07:26.23 |
| robin_watts_mac | moves hotel. back later. | 08:19.24 |
| AndroidDeveloper | hello guys | 20:13.55 |
| | just reached to this forum while i was searching for some pdf text to speech tocument, i found about MuPDF, i haven't looked into the code yet, but can anybody tell me if its possible to perform text to speech through MuPDF libraries? | 20:14.48 |
| | i mean, i need raw text data out from those pdf files, is it possible to extract it for text to speech purpose? | 20:15.13 |
| Jogux | mupdf has text extraction, yes. | 20:15.30 |
| AndroidDeveloper | so it means i can read all raw text for text to speech on "ANY" pdf file | 20:16.39 |
| | so it means i can read all raw text for text to speech on "ANY" pdf file ? | 20:16.53 |
| Jogux | I don't quite think any pdf file; eg. if the pdf contains an image, mupdf won't do OCR on it. | 20:17.32 |
| | and in some cases the text might come out in the wrong order I believe | 20:17.48 |
| | (I'm not a mupdf dev btw, but I've used it a few times) | 20:18.07 |
| AndroidDeveloper | you got me, i asked becuase of Image issue, obviously image can't be read out, let say a document has few images in between the text, would i be getting all the text extracted out of that document so i may use it as per need? | 20:19.03 |
| Jogux | you should get all the actual text, at least in most cases, yes. | 20:19.49 |
| AndroidDeveloper | and the images will be ignored (meaning that there won't be some binary data being shown up for image in the extracted text) | 20:19.51 |
| Jogux | correct, images will be ignored. | 20:20.07 |
| AndroidDeveloper | great, life saver info, Thanks a lot Jogux | 20:20.23 |
| Jogux | no problem | 20:20.29 |
| AndroidDeveloper | i came here first time, if its okey, would you mind teling me something about this chat portal? what's the main purpose of it, is it specifically for muPDF or general android dev? | 20:21.05 |
| | asking because i am having a strong urge to bookmark it in my browser , lol | 20:21.27 |
| Jogux | it's primarily for ghostscript, but also used for mupdf. | 20:21.33 |
| | general android dev questions are probably best asked elsewhere | 20:21.53 |
| AndroidDeveloper | ghostscript? | 20:22.21 |
| Jogux | ghostscript is postscript/pdf tool/converts/printer | 20:23.12 |
| AndroidDeveloper | got it, and muPDF is build on that, i see | 20:23.35 |
| Jogux | nah; mupdf was (I believe) a complete rewrite from scratch | 20:23.52 |
| | ghostscript doesn't work on android/ios/etc, but mupdf does. | 20:24.03 |
| AndroidDeveloper | uhum. | 20:24.04 |
| | i see i see, i am currently doing a project which involves downloading of pdf files from the server and then performing text to speech on them. I would keep on visiting this portal if i stuck in some muPDF, Thanks again Jogux | 20:25.47 |
| | hope to find you here on my future visits | 20:25.55 |
| Jogux | no problem. good luck! | 20:26.14 |
| AndroidDeveloper | and if i can be of any help regarding android issues, anybody is welcome samad_qurashi@yahoo.com | 20:26.53 |
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