document conversion utilities was Re: the Sonar thread

[Linux for blind general discussion]

No, I am not saying you should use the gui part of calibre.
When you install calibre, a number of command line tools are installed.
So you go to a terminal, either in the GUI or at the console using e.g. 
Speakup, and run a command like:
ebook-convert  animal_farm.epub test.txt
which converts the epub into plain text.
It can convert between a lot of formats this way.
Regards, Willem



On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Hi,
> but last time i tried caliber ebook, it is not accessible with orca. really?
>
> 2017-04-25 0:55 GMT+08:00, Linux for blind general discussion
> <blinux-list at redhat.com>:
>> calibre's ebook-convert does pdf and epub to some extent as well as some
>> of those propriatory formats, as long as there is no drm on them.
>> HTH, Willem
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 24 Apr 2017, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
>>
>>> Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list at redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> the following command line utilities are all useful:
>>>>
>>>> catdoc for .doc and I believe .rtf(and I believe catdoc also includes
>>>> commands to handle xls and ppt).
>>> *snip*
>>>> Granted, I know of no command line tools for dealing with ePub or
>>>> Kindle
>>>
>>> Most of the formats mentioned in this message, including epub, are
>>> covered by pandoc.  Nope, it doesn't do Kindle.  It also will not read
>>> PDF files, but it can write them.  It's really the most useful and
>>> universal document-converting tool out there, and I highly recommend it.
>>> It can even go the other way and convert Markdown to various word
>>> processor formats, and that's really useful.
>>>
>>> -- Chris
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