On 02-04-15 09:56, Nalin.x.Linux wrote: > Three year back I started developing an > Accessible Graphical User Interface for OCR engines. It's happy to say > that now my papa(visually challenged) can read printed books using a > scanner through Lios. That is great. Just for the record, ebook-speaker (already in Debian and written by a blind person) should be capable of doing that as well (in Jessie and sid), albeit it is focusing on speaking it out. From the man-page [1]: Give an eBook_file as argument to eBook-speaker. Many eBook formats are supported. eBook-speaker also tries to read scanned documents through Optical Character Recognition. and: -s Scan a document using a hardware scanner and OCR it with the tool tesseract. Paul [1] http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ebook-speaker&manpath=Debian+testing+jessie
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