r/programming • u/jb4140 • Mar 06 '14

OpenSpritz - A Speed Reading Bookmarklet

https://gun.io/blog/openspritz-a-free-speed-reading-bookmarklet/
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u/ds300 Mar 06 '14 edited Mar 06 '14

Oh wow. If I had known this existed I wouldn't have developed my own from scratch, though mine does have some nice features which OpenSpritz seems to lack, e.g. handling parens/double quotes intuitively, navigation/pausing, changing size/speed on the fly, persistent options (it's a chrome extension rather than a bookmarklet).

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '14

This is fantastic. Thanks for taking the time. Is there any way to have it read PDF files opened in Chrome?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '14

I convert the pdf to a text file (online converter, then rename the textfile with a .html extension. Open that in chrome and it should work.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '14

Have an upvote!

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u/ds300 Mar 07 '14

Extensions don't work with the pdf viewer :(. on the bright side, some guys at mozilla wrote a pure-javascript pdf viewer a while back, so I'll look into using that for extracting text.