Daniel Dalton wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to read pdf documents in a console with speakup?
Yes.
I don't want to have to use a gui.
So don't use one.
If so what application should I use?
Try the pdftotext utility from the xpdf package. You didn't say what distro you run but I know it's prepackaged for Debian and probably in .rpm. You could of course compile from source as well. Note that pdftotext won't read files with the no copy and no print bits set. It dumps the pdf file to the same name with a .txt extension which you can read with less(1) or more(1). It might overwrite already existing files with the same name and .txt extension as the pdf file you convert. You don't need the other programs in the package. You used to get it from http://www.foolabs.com/ but this might have changed. You can always get source from Debian ftp mirrors.
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