Help Me Read This

Help Me Read This

App for seniors to scan and read printed text out loud.

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This app captures the photo, recognizes the text and reads it out loud. It helps seniors and people with vision impairment to read documents, prescriptions and have access to the information trapped in print. Open Source.
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Web App•Open Source•SaaS
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Artur Piszek
Maker
I built this App for my Grandpa, who has trouble reading tiny text on documents and prescriptions. Now he can snap a photo and the app will recognize the text and read it out loud to him. He feels more in control of his life. The stack is: - Web App - Built-in camera app for photo capture - Google Cloud Vision for OCR - Web Speech API for TTS App is Open Source and you can use it for free with your Google Cloud Vision credentials. You can also purchase access to my cloud vision API key (unfortunately google's API is paid). Pull requests appreciated!
Stephen Jensen
Great idea- the senior community is really underserved in technology and the population will continue to grow as baby boomers retire.
Karen Merchan
Great idea!. Does it work for different languages?
Artur Piszek
Maker
@karen_merchan I tested in English and Polish now (my grandpa needs Polish. ) It should work with any language you can set your device to!
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