hi all,
given that there is no pdf support on readlang, anyone managed to create a workaround how to use pdfs on web a browser? like export to html with further upload on a server.
simple copypaste of texts doesn’t really work if pdfs are picture heavy 
Use calibre to convert into epub. If you need something more precise use a OCR recognition software for having an authentic Epub. You can ask ChatGPT or Deepseek to do a app Python so that you can convert it using OCR. Otherwise you can use Abby Fine reader it’s what I do.
thanks for your suggestion, but that’s not the solution i was asking for.
my goal is to find a workaround how to use pdfs with readlang reader in a browser, the same way as i read e.g., a news website with readlang script/extension.
Since the readlang extension can presumably only function by interacting with the DOM, I think you need something that converts pdf to html. I tried converting a pdf with the below site and the readlang extension was able to work with the local file the site created. (You might have to change your extension settings to allow the readlang extension access to local files.) Though with the particular PDF I tried, the extension was not able to introduce spacing properly and it kind of was writing over itself when I looked up words. Hard to say if some pdfs would work better than that.
thanks, i tried it. at some degree it worked (the glitch you’ve mentioned is also present when reading some webpages), but the pictures were absent in an html file with just frames present