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Old 12-02-2010, 08:59 AM   #23
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Originally Posted by Sonist View Post
Adobe Reader has been capable of text to speech for years, since Adobe Reader 5, for free (Adobe just introduced Adobe Reader 10).

See for example Tip of the Week: Adobe Reader’s ‘Read Aloud’ Feature.
Indeed. However it still relies on the PDF having been constructed in a way that results in meaningful information being read out. If it's a series of whole page images, there won't be anything to read out. If it's been cobbled together in a DTP package, you can sometimes end up listening to the page contents being read out in a completely illogical order - paragraph 5, followed by an image caption, followed by the page heading, followed by paragraph 2, etc.

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