FBReader doesn't support chm well - I am having difficulties opening any files bigger than 5MB or any Japanese/Chinese chm files...

Will KchmViewer do better? Does it support OS2008? Thanks!

I too am looking for a good chm viewer. FBReader doesn't support chm files with tables which is a major problem for me. Isn't kchmviewer a KDE app, which I'm guessing would require installing KDE or Debian on the tablet?

From what I read, you can compile it for generic QT (minus any KDE "optimisations"). I'd offer but I can't make heads nor tails of the QT packages in extras.

For IT OS 2006, there used to be a sweet CHM Reader -- hcmview,

http://www.xs4all.nl/~erica78/henry/hchmview/

which used to install fine on Bora... I contacted the author Henry Tang asking him to release the source so that the package could be updated for Chinook / Diablo but he never did.

I am not fond of FBReader as a CHM reader, so perhaps the way out could be to use one of the many Linux CHM Readers under Easy Debian. See,

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ghlight=debian
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ghlight=debian
http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ghlight=debian

For linux CHM readers, see this

http://www.linux.com/feature/122171

-- Denis

Someone at one point was working on porting xchm to maemo.

See http://wxwidgets.blogspot.com/2007/1...25239352945706

Changing slightly the point, I have a copy of the (expensive) DSM-IV as an old-style, windows .hlp file. I have been able to read it on a linux box by wine and the plain vanilla winhlp.exe (or was it winhlp32.exe?) from my old windows disks.
But, could you imagine a solution to browse and search that kind of files on the NITs?

.hlp is gone, even Vista does not support it! You can convert to .chm though...

Just a question, does anyone know of a software that converts images into text? I have over a 1000 pages of PDFs, but they are not text, but images... Its mostly words, so it would be nice to convert them.

One possibility (if you have access to a windows box), is to decompile into html using the native HH.exe viewer command line option which i described here back when i did this for pocket pc :

http://web.archive.org/web/200212272...ev/chmdcmp.htm

If i recall correctly it decompiles into raw html files and images with no table of contents so i wrote a rough utility to parse the xml toc and convert to a simple html links page.

If you wanted the tocconverter, i was also able to download it at the link above (in archive.org cache), but you would still need to do the manual command line decompile first.

Lots of individual files take forever to copy over usb so you might want to zip or make an iso of it before copying.

If you're willing to bite the Easy Debian bullet, it looks like there's a bunch available in the Debian repos:

• chmsee (GTK+, so tap-and-hold right click! Also, looks oriented to Chinese chm files)
• gnochm (GTK+ too, looks like it's written in Python)
• kchmviewer
• xchm

You could install one of these and then use pipeline's dbus switchboard to open the reader when you click on the file in the File Manager.

EDIT: Interesting extra found on the chmsee Debian package page: "It also ship a script cs2w to convert chm file to html files."

I'll second that request for the QT reader. It'd be great for my days at the clinic.