On: Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser

[kgbcia]

I was thinking of doing something like this for visually impaired users. The next step is to pipe it into the JavaScript web speech synthesis API.

https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/web-speech-api/speak-easy...

[mwcampbell → kgbcia]

We already have our own tools for that, either integrated into screen readers or available as add-ons. Thanks for the thought, though.

[joeevans1000 → kgbcia]

I am the primary caregiver for a blind academic and I can tell you that any work in this area by you will be more than welcome, by both he and I. There is a lot of progress to be made in this area. There are tools, but they are primitive to where it is headed (hopefully in part to your efforts).