[Athen] Preserving bookmarks in PDFS

[Deborah Armstrong via athen-list]

The input is an OER textbook which is a fairly accessible PDF. It has headings, and seems well tagged/marked up.
But the student wants to use a browser which makes book navigation much easier than adobe reader.
However the bookmarks in the PDF don't translate. If you open the PDF in a browser, there are no headings. If you open it in a conversion program, the bookmarks are known but converting to HTML looses them.
I've seen this with a couple of OER textbooks when they are requested by a screen reader user. And as a screen reader user myself, I've confirmed the behavior.
Students with other print impairments don't seem to have trouble with the files. K3000 and Adobe Reader of course see the bookmarks. K1000 does as well, but most students don't have that at home, and when K1000 converts to HTML, it also looses the bookmarks.
It's too bad that K1000 cannot be used by a student at home with a license that lasts for the quarter or semester.
What I really want to do is simply convert the PDF to html and have all that markup preserved.
Any thoughts?
--Debee

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