on the other hand, you could just use the pdf to text conversion tool and send a document through that which is issentially what google does. if the document security is set or the file is in some other way not usable you will have no results. ----- Original Message ----- From: <ddunfee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2002 4:39 PM Subject: word and pdf documents Recently we have discussed access to word and pdf documents for linux users. A possible approach has occured. On google search, if a file on the web is an url, google will translate it into html and/or text for viewing. If we could induce google to look at a url where a file is stored on a web page of our choice, it would do the conversion for us. I wonder if those recent pdf files not accessible are converted by google? Does anyone have an example of one which we could ask google to seek to test this? Google ranks search results by number of links to a given url. If we set up a page with a wierd title and start to link to it and then ask google to search for that wierd name, can we force it to find and convert files on it? Just some thoughts for a possible solution. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
