Hi:

Has anyone tried out these tools?  If so, are they of any use?

Peter 

>>       This section provides tools to help visually disabled users whose
>>screen reader software is not compatible with the Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.
>>These online tools convert PDF documents into either HTML or ASCII text,
>>which can then be read by a number of common screen reader programs. These
>>tools approximate the logical reading order of the text in an Adobe PDF
>>document and reformat it into a single column of text. This solution
>>provides three benefits:
>>
>>         a.. Visually disabled users can use familiar applications, screen
>>readers and Web browsers.
>>
>>         b.. PDF files can be accessible on any platform supporting Web
>>browsers and screen readers.
>>
>>         c.. Some of the problems screen readers have reading documents with
>>complex layouts are overcome.
>>
>>
>>       These tools work best on documents in English. Documents in European
>>languages, such as French or German, should convert fairly well with the
>>exception of symbols that cannot be represent by text-based formats, such as
>>umlauts. Languages requiring double-byte characters, such as Japanese,
>>Chinese, and Korean, are not supported.
>>
>>       Following is a brief overview of the online conversion tools available
>>to transform PDF documents to other formats. For more information about how
>>these tools convert the files, go to more about online conversion.
>>
>>
>>       Web-based forms submission tool
>>
>>       If the Adobe PDF file is on the Internet, users type the URL into an
>>electronic form and select the "Get This PDF Document as HTML" button. The
>>document will be converted on the fly to HTML and will be returned
>>immediately to the Web browser. How to convert PDF files using Web-based
>>forms.
>>
>>
>>       E-mail submission tool
>>
>>       If the Adobe PDF is on the Internet, users can submit the URL of a PDF
>>file via e-mail to convert it to HTML or ASCII text. PDF files that are on a
>>local hard disk, local CD-ROM, or local area network, can also be converted
>>by attaching the PDF file to an e-mail message. The converted results are
>>returned in the body of a new mail message in a matter of minutes. How to
>>convert the PDF using e-mail.
>>
>>
>>       More about online conversion
>>
>>       Using either the web-based form or the e-mail submission tool, when
>>access.adobe.com converts PDF to HTML, all existing hypertext links are
>>converted into HTML links. This includes intra-document links as well as
>>links to other documents on the Internet. Extra HTML links are also created
>>to enable easy navigation between pages. The very first line of the document
>>will contain at least two of these special links:
>>
>>         a.. "Document Body" is a special link to the start of the body of
>>the document.
>>
>>         b.. "Page Navigation Panel" is a part of the document that contains
>>links to each page of the document. For example, if the document has five
>>pages, the Page Navigation Panel would have links called 1 2 3 4 5, each
>>corresponding to its respective page.
>>
>>         c.. If the PDF document contains Acrobat bookmarks (these are
>>different than the bookmarks associated with the browser and are like an
>>electronic table of contents feature), these will be converted to a
>>"Document Outline" that contains HTML links corresponding to the original
>>Acrobat bookmarks.
>>
>>         d.. Between each page of the document, links are inserted to make it
>>easy for you to move to the next and previous page.
>>
>>
>>
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>>               a.. Web-based forms submission tool in English
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