Are there text, doc or pdf readers for Enigma2 or OpenATV?

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  • Hi guys,


    Are there text, doc or pdf readers for Enigma2 or OpenATV? as a plugin or any other method?


    I saw that the installer of .ipk plugins lets tyou read the log file at the end of the installation, so I guess

    it can be done, but I didn't find any text reader. It would be great one that can read the most popular

    formats, like txt, rtf, doc, and even pdf.


    And, if available, would it be possible to make it load these files automatically without having to

    open the reader and then loading the file?


    Thanks.

    • Official Post

    Dreamboxes (especially older models or those with limited hardware) are not designed to handle large or complex PDF documents. Converting via a PC is generally the fastest and most reliable solution.


    But from telnet command


    Code
    apt-get update
    apt-cache search pdf
  • Dreamboxes (especially older models or those with limited hardware) are not designed to handle large or complex PDF documents. Converting via a PC is generally the fastest and most reliable solution.


    But from telnet command


    Code
    apt-get update
    apt-cache search pdf

    Many Thanks, i´ll try it :)
    :smiling face:

  • Hello,
    i´m back again:
    unfortunately this does not work for me, I get an error message directly:
    root@dm920:~# apt-get update

    -bash: apt-get: command not found


    what have I done wrong?
    and
    I made a mistake with the version, it is openATV 7.4

    Edited 2 times, last by laas ().

    • Official Post

    as you may notice i posted before you mentioned the image, so i assumed you had a dreamos image. opkg update


    Code
    opkg update
    opkg list > output.txt
    grep -E "pdf|evince" output.txt


    or


    opkg  list | grep pdf

  • Thank you very much for your help ,

    and the commands worked, you didn't do anything wrong, the error is clearly mine, but

    unfortunately the Dreambox still says as error message


    “No activity available to play ***.pdf”


    It's not that important, it would have been a nice gimmick, but it's just not meant to be.


    Thanks again for your efforts and help


    Have a nice Sunday

    P.S.:and please excuse my English, it comes from a translation tool

  • found this on the web, didn´t test it, the idea is to convert it first to .txt and view it as the text file, e.g. with file commander

    Python
    from pypdf import PdfReader
    
    reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")
    text = ""
    for page in reader.pages:
        text += page.extract_text() + "\n"

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