Choose from over 4 million books on Google Play and take your favorites with you for reading offline. Google Book Downloader is a tool for downloading digital books from books.google.com. Give it the URL or ID of a Google Book and it will create a PDF of that book. Some books can already be downloaded from the web, but many cannot. I enjoy having the ebooks read out loud. My previous solution has always been to highlight the chapters I want to read and then turn on voiceover in Adobe Reader on my Mac. ![]() The advantage is that I can select from all sorts of voices and control the pitch and speed. The disadvantage is that it sometimes takes quite a bit of time to highlight things and subtitles and page numbers often get read out as well, interrupting my reading. I just tried iBooks and although.epub files read marvellously, it doesn't read.pdf files. Is there any software that is available that can read ebooks out loud, preferably one that works for pdf files and lets me control pitch and speed? I would like to have books read aloud to me on my (google) tablet, especially as most of the books I'm reading are textbooks and don't have audiobook versions. There are several available, these are high end products used by totally blind and visually impaired user to operator a computer. Is preferred by all the blind computer users I know. According to there is a version designed specifically for tablets. Be aware, the creators of PDF documents, often do so without consideration for screen readers. Is used to create fixed format document for the a sighted reader to look at. Even if there is text for a screen reader to read it is often difficult for a screen reader to translate it in to a helpful format. If the PDF file is actually a scanned image of a printed page, Jaws will not be able to read it. There is software called that is able to 'read' pictures of words and convert them to a text layer that JAWS, or MS word, etc can consume. How to set up remote desktop connection. Lastly if the PDF is laid out with lots of columns, boxes, images, cute little conversation bubbles, etc, it will be extremely difficult for any program to translated it into something meaningful to you. Has an option that will convert PDF to most ebook formats, there is a listing of some of the issue you may encounter. Hey, from first hand experience I can tell you that this 'most' blind users is extremely relative. Sadly, most Jaws users use it because it is cheaper than others, and more sadly, because crack for it exists. So a lot of copies of Jaws around are illegally used. NVDA will, I hope, soon become stable and serious enough that nothing of this will be necessary. Also, reading eBook with a screen reader for enjoyment is near death experience.:D You have to scroll down line by line, or use some method like OP did, but eventually the reading will stop at the end of window or selection. – Aug 20 '15 at 0:08.
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