Any Chess GUI that reads ebooks (PDF)

[Dann Corbit]

So what should the database GUI do with the book?

I think the PDF book is a red herring.
He wants the functionality of a database.

[bmp1974]

So what should the database GUI do with the book?

I think the PDF book is a red herring.
He wants the functionality of a database.

Studying an chess ebook alongside a board has many benefits as I have experienced using Chess Study app in android phones. But phone has its own limitations (Tablets are much better). In PCs also one can analyze while reading a position or analyzing, record moves as we play it on the board etc.
I tried in PC using bluestacks but not all PDF ebooks opens. I guess it has some bugs.

[phhnguyen]

So what should the database GUI do with the book?

I think the PDF book is a red herring.
He wants the functionality of a database.

Studying an chess ebook alongside a board has many benefits as I have experienced using Chess Study app in android phones. But phone has its own limitations (Tablets are much better). In PCs also one can analyze while reading a position or analyzing, record moves as we play it on the board etc.
I tried in PC using bluestacks but not all PDF ebooks opens. I guess it has some bugs.

I guess that app has a set of PGN games that comes with some known chess books. Look like users have to find and open games manually when studying those books. It can't help with new chess books.

I think we can do better: auto recognizes chess boards from images and parses moves out from the text.

However, IMO, the benefit still a question since PDF files may bring too much trouble. The built-in format or HTML books are much easier and safer to work with.

[hafni]

ChessPDFBrowser (programmed in JAVA from Spain) can scan a PDF and return a list of games.

You can get it at : https://sourceforge.net/projects/chesspdfbrowser1/

Hafni

[Dann Corbit]

I tried the pdf pgn scanner.
I read the first file in my Arves PDF folder.
It found 16 games.
For every game it said "Failed to find first move"

I would have to say it is not ready for prime time.

[Ovyron]

Welcome to the future. As PC usage dies and mobile usage rises, we see more and more that development in all areas is moving into Apps, and that the fastest way to do something is to get a Tablet and install the App, or get a Tablet and use the PC alongside it for things the tablet can't do (like running PC software.) No Android or another Mobile OS Emulator has come close to just getting a Tablet (or... using your cellphone.)

[hafni]

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I tried the pdf pgn scanner.
I read the first file in my Arves PDF folder.
It found 16 games.
For every game it said "Failed to find first move"
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Well, if it`s a full game, say from move 1 to end, without figurines, it's ok.

Your problem - "Failed to find first move" - is because the PDF has a diagram (the utility can't read that!)
and you must set the position first, and the following moves make sense.

Obviously, there are not magic solutions, personally i get the whole game from a database (because the possible typos and the time is roughly the same), for setting the diagram's position i use a Russian program called Kvetka (www.kvetka.org) who is perfect because you can have the PDF or whatever format and the program's board in the same screen.

Hafni