Re: supplementary-reader: text reader script

Devin Prater <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jan 2022 08:21:14 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.accessibility
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--Apple-Mail=_490C0A4B-0352-4A0F-8A77-137158A02C11
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset=utf-8

See OCRDesktop https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop =
<https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop> for something kinda similar. =
Orca is a screen reader, it cannot read images though. I don=E2=80=99t =
know of anything else anywhere remotely similar to this, but I think =
even blind people could find this useful.
Devin Prater
[email protected]

Https://devinprater.flounder.online

> On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:56 PM, forrest hilton =
<[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> I have recently written a small script =
<https://github.com/ForrestHilton/supplementary-reader/> that provides =
text reader functionality. I will refrain from pasting the entire =
README, but what makes this different from things discussed in this list =
is 1) the keyboard shortcuts are available across the desktop 2) the =
program never provides a window or takes up any screen space 3) the =
program can work on images and pdfs 4) this is a text reader as opposed =
to a screen reader.
>=20
> I've just today joined this mailing list and only skimmed the =
archives. Is there an application that already provides this =
functionality? Is there a larger project that I can add this =
functionality to? I might be willing to rewrite the whole thing in =
another programming language if there is a reason.
>=20
> I am aware of a few sloppy things in this script but it works for now.


--Apple-Mail=_490C0A4B-0352-4A0F-8A77-137158A02C11
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset=utf-8

<html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; =
-webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=3D"">See =
OCRDesktop&nbsp;<a href=3D"https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop" =
class=3D"">https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop</a>&nbsp;for something =
kinda similar. Orca is a screen reader, it cannot read images though. I =
don=E2=80=99t know of anything else anywhere remotely similar to this, =
but I think even blind people could find this useful.<br class=3D""><div =
class=3D"">
<div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, =
0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; =
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; =
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: =
break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" =
class=3D""><div dir=3D"auto" style=3D"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: =
rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: =
0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; =
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: =
break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" =
class=3D""><div>Devin Prater</div><div><a =
href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" =
class=3D"">[email protected]</a></div><div class=3D""><br =
class=3D""></div></div></div><a =
href=3D"Https://devinprater.flounder.online" =
class=3D"">Https://devinprater.flounder.online</a>
</div>
<div><br class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div =
class=3D"">On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:56 PM, forrest hilton &lt;<a =
href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" =
class=3D"">[email protected]</a>&gt; wrote:</div><br =
class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div dir=3D"ltr" =
class=3D"">Hello,<div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I =
have recently written a <a =
href=3D"https://github.com/ForrestHilton/supplementary-reader/" =
class=3D"">small script</a> that provides text reader =
functionality.&nbsp;I will refrain from pasting the entire README, but =
what makes this different from things discussed in this list is 1) the =
keyboard shortcuts are available across the desktop 2) the program never =
provides a window or takes up any screen space 3) the program can work =
on images and pdfs 4) this is a text reader as opposed to a screen =
reader. </div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">I've =
just today joined this mailing list and only skimmed&nbsp;the archives. =
Is there an application that already provides this functionality? Is =
there a larger project that I can add this functionality to? I might be =
willing to rewrite the whole thing in another programming language if =
there is a reason.</div><div class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div =
class=3D"">I am aware of a few sloppy things in this script but it works =
for now.</div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br class=3D""></body></html>=

--Apple-Mail=_490C0A4B-0352-4A0F-8A77-137158A02C11--