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A Series of Simple Processing Tools for PDF Files for People with Print Disabilities

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2020)

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Abstract

This paper presents simple processing tools for PDF files for people with print disabilities. They consist of the following three tools: “PDFcontentEraser”, “PDFfontChanger” and “PDFcontentExtracter.” PDFcontentEraser is a tool to remove a certain type of elements in a PDF file. PDFfontChanger is a tool to change a selection of fonts in a document. PDFcontentExtracter is a tool to retrieve the components of a PDF file.

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ibaraki University, Hitachi, Japan

    Shunsuke Nakamura, Kento Kohase & Akio Fujiyoshi

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  1. Shunsuke Nakamura
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Correspondence to Akio Fujiyoshi .

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, JKU Linz, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Jack Baskin School of Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA

    Roberto Manduchi

  3. Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Mario Covarrubias Rodriguez

  4. Support Centre for Students with Special Needs, Masaryk University Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Peňáz

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Nakamura, S., Kohase, K., Fujiyoshi, A. (2020). A Series of Simple Processing Tools for PDF Files for People with Print Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Manduchi, R., Covarrubias Rodriguez, M., Peňáz, P. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12376. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58796-3_37

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