<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">See OCRDesktop <a href="https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop" class="">https://github.com/chrys87/ocrdesktop</a> for something kinda similar. Orca is a screen reader, it cannot read images though. I don’t know of anything else anywhere remotely similar to this, but I think even blind people could find this useful.<br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:56 PM, forrest hilton <<a href="mailto:forrestmhilton@gmail.com" class="">forrestmhilton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have recently written a <a href="https://github.com/ForrestHilton/supplementary-reader/" class="">small script</a> 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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am aware of a few sloppy things in this script but it works for now.</div></div>
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