Monday, May 2, 2011

Pdf-to-Speech 5.0

We added OCR to Pdf-to-Speech. The app can now be used to read text in pictures that are embedded in a PDF document.

To use the feature. go to Settings and select Google Docs as the text extraction engine. A few things to note:
  • Google OCR is in beta and a quota is in effect, so the service may stop as the quota is reached.
  • Pdfbox, the default text extractor is better at reading Pdf's with columns than Google OCR.

Upcoming updates will allow the app to read jpegs and pngs.

5 comments:

Ptitonio said...

Somme issues with some pdf where space is inserted between letters of some words.

krassimir terziev said...

Why is it that I my market app does not find com.practicalapps? Is it my location? How can I buy it? I need to listen to tones of PDF's and this is the only offer I found

jeremy said...

The app was listed out of some countries by mistake. The app is now available everywhere Android Market is available.

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