Let The Computer Read PDF Docs For You
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Acrobat 6.0 onwards Acrobat Reader has a built in feature where it can read out loud (in a machine voice) any PDF document.
All you need to do is to open a PDF document in the freely available Acrobat Reader (preferable 7.0) and go to View -> Read out loud -> Read to end of document. The machine voice will start reading it out to you and you can sit back and listen as if it were an audio book. You can choose to ask it to read the whole document or just the current page. With whole document option, the pages automatically flip to new page as the voice reads on.
I have tried this on number of occasions and it works very well. Of course for images and certain words you might have to peak at the document.
Do you know of any other tool which does this?
Happy listening!
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This is so cool. Now, if I could get the computer to read all of the blogs that I read, I could send that to an mp3 file, download it, and listen to blogs while I commute back and forth to work.
For real, you’ve had a lot of great tips that just can’t be found anywhere else lately, thanks.
lee: I am glad you find this blog helpful.
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