Re: [Lynx-dev] reaching google in basic html with lynx.

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi,
I actually have a number of options I use.
If the file is something major, and  the google changing it to html fails, 
as an attachment, I send the file to the robobraille service.
www.robobraille.org
using convert@robobraille.org
and providing your desired ending format can produce fine results much of 
the time.
If that process fails, we still have pdftotext here at shellworld, 
sometimes if  the pdf is read only, that manages the file.
Yes, I have sent them to myself for the effort as well, again to my gmail 
address

Most of the files I get go to gmail instead of here anyway, as they are 
work related.
One more point about robobraille.
The service can convert epub files, and create mobi files too.
Kare

On Sun, 17 Oct 2021, dan d. wrote:

> Regarding pdf attachments in gmail.  In google search results some time ago pdf 
> files were also present in a converted to text format As a
> choice.  That is no longer the case unless someone knows how to activate it 
> again..
>
> Thinking of your remark, have you tried sending a pdf attachment to yourself to 
> have a text version?  The google search result versions were
> always superior to after the fact conversions of pdf downloads.
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
> > Hi Travis,
> > I am curious.  can you share examples of sites that require a gmail
> > account?
> > And yet do not need you to confirm anything by sending you an email to
> > that account?
> > Speaking personally, the basic html edition of gmail is profoundly needful
> > for me, especially as  often things like pdf attachments get
> > automatically converted to html, and in lynx become plan text.  Same for
> > word and docx files.
> > still, I am  personally   unaware of a site that requires the use of
> > gmail, the option to sign up with your gmail account, yes, but not an
> > actual mandate.
> > Do you mind sharing your experiences with this?
> > Karen
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 16 Oct 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
> >
> > > For what it's worth, when I clicked on that link, it brought me to the google
> > > page, and asked me if I was sure I wanted to turn on the html only (or
> > > whatever it was) feature of gmail.?? I have a gmail account only because some
> > > sites require it.?? I have never once actually checked said mail, and never
> > > plan to.
> > >
> > > But, it did work.
> > >
> > > On 10/16/2021 4:30 AM, Bela Lubkin wrote:
> > > > >  On Wed, 13 Oct 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > > > > >  Sharing this, in case it helps others.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > > > >  Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 19:51:07 +0000
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
> > > >  Zachary Lee Andrews replied:
> > > >
> > > > >  Am I missing something, the only thing I see in your message is a gmail
> > > > >  URL that doesn't work...
> > > >  Right, gmail URLs are per-person.  mail.google.com/mail/u/0 is the
> > > >  mailbox of *your* primary logged-in google ID.  For anyone else, that
> > > >  URL means 'the message with this hash key in *my* mailbox', which is
> > > >  vanishingly unlikely to exist; and if it did, it wouldn't be the same
> > > >  message anyway.
> > > >
> > > >  If you want to forward text out of a gmail message, you need to forward
> > > >  the text, not a gmail URL...
> > > >
> > > > >  Bela<
> > > >  PS: apologies to Zachary for mistakenly sending 1st copy of this to him
>
> --
> ent-
> XR