Issues reading PF2e books and pdfs

[kaffien]

I've been having issues due to my wonky eyes.

Is there a way for me to activate read out loud on acrobat?
I even have the pro version.

If i try to run OCR on the pdf's it asks for a password.
If I just try to tell it to read the file out loud it tells me
"warning empty page".

I'd appreciate any help I can get in this regard. I really want to start running a game for my kids and few of their friends.

Thank you in advance.

[Moppy]

Which operating system? Their built in screen readers are all different.

Whatever it is, you should be able to get it to read the web rules (2e.aonprd.com) without trouble.

[Nik Gervae]

I tried this in Preview on macos and I had to select text on the page to get it to read; maybe if you select text in Acrobat (rather than a page) it will work.

If you manage to get text-to-speech working at all, how well if works is going to depend very much on how the PDF itself is structured—most are structured poorly, such that if you copy & paste text it winds up scrambled. This is particularly true of two-column layouts and tables.