Re: add OCR function
Alex Jordan <[email protected]> Mon, 26 May 2014 22:16:15 -0700
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On May 26, 2014 6:18 PM, "vk.recipe" <[email protected]> wrote: > > have OCR (optical character recognition) function in firefox. > while on the web, sometimes in the 'Help' or 'HOW TO DO' instruction pages, the author use screen shots of a page of words or the menu of their product. would be helpful if such information is converted into real words so the blind can use their text-to-speech software to read the information. now only the sighted have the benefit of the screenshot but not the blind. This is what the alt= attribute of <img> is for.