Inspiration
I saw OCR technology and thought that it could be used for helping people who cannot read very well.
What it does
You can upload an image of a book page. It will use OCR to transcribe that book page. Then you can hear that page using text to speech.
How we built it
The OCR is built in python using Tesseract which runs the HTML page using flask. The HTML page runs the text to speech and the front end.
Challenges we ran into
Setting up the OCR was difficult as I needed to code it to modify the image for it to be able to read the text clearly.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
I am proud of setting up the OCR.
What we learned
I learned how to use flask to implement python into html and how to use bootstrap.
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