Hi Pranav.  My comments below.
John

At 06:53 PM 6/20/2006, you wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>Thanks for the info. Can't I convert a pdf directly to SVG?

JAG: Yes, by using the IVEO Converter utility.  Adobe Reader won't 
save as SVG, and even if it did, it would probably be lousy.

>Also, I suspect
>that even with using IVIO I would need sighted assistance in tagging the
>symbols?

JAG: That depends.  What you described, a straightforward flow cart, 
probably doesn't really need any graphic tags.  If you can read the 
text in the boxes and follow the arrows, what else do you need?


>What about programs such as the Kurzweill 1000. They can retain images of
>the page and they also have the OCR text. I would assume it would be simple
>to print out the images and text.

JAG: I'm no expert on Kurzweil.  My understanding is that it will 
read the text but give no information, at least no information to a 
blind person, about the graphics.  If others on the list know how a 
blind person can get info about graphics from Kurzweil, I hope they 
will chime in.  If all text on your PDF is really text, the screen 
reader willl probably provide as much info as Kurzweil.

John A. Gardner
Professor and Director, Science Access Project
Department of Physics
Oregon State University
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