supplementary-reader: text reader script

[forrest hilton]

Chrys,
I am very interested in working with you. Maybe I could start with adding
mouse based cropping for ocrdesktop.
However since ocr desktop does not info itself provide the screen reading,
I need something additional

My first thought after reviewing some of the "Is there a project that is
jovie successor?" thred is that I should have one or two shortcuts that
reads aloud the middle click keyboard (most recently selected/highlighted
text) then have another shortcut that uses OCR desktop to simulate
selecting text.

As for how to distribute this conveniently, I could just put everything
into a kde shortcuts file. This leaves users on their own for dependencies,
but I don't know if an entire package is warranted for this.

The additional features that I have mentioned are mostly speculation
except for using speech dispatcher, which is critical.

On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 11:47 AM Linux A11y <chrys at linux-a11y.org> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> like noted devin, the script looks like an very basic begin to OCRdesktop.
>
> I just did an major rewrite. See the full story here:
>
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/ocr-desktop-60895292
>
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/color-analyzing-60988555
>
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/ocrdesktop-3-0-61111548
>
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/ocrdesktop-fun-61131455
>
> https://www.patreon.com/posts/ocrdesktop-ocr-61228691
>
> OCRdesctop features:
> - OCR the whole desktop
> - OCR the current focused window
> - interact with the results like simulate klicks or route the mouse to
> them)
> - OCR files, simple images to multipage PDFs
> - OCR the clipboard content
> - Color analyzing of the recognized text
> - macro functionality for more complex tasks (like open a menu/ submenu
> bevor start OCR process)
> and a lot of other stuff.
>
> It provides an UI to navigate the content, can store the result in
> clipboard or just output to STDOUT.
>
> But its not though to be self voice, this is done by the screen reader.
>
> As you plan to reimplement your functionality, maybe it makes a lot of
> sense to collaborate here and improve OCRdesktop in the given direction.
> It’s written in pure python. Also its already in many distributions
> repository's. So anyone would benefit.
>
> Would be cool to  join forces.  What do you think?
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Ocrdesktop
>
> Cheers chrys
>
>
> ____________________________
>
> 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’t know of anything else anywhere remotely similar to this, but I think even blind people could find this useful.
> Devin Praterr.d.t.prater at gmail.com <https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility>
> Https://devinprater.flounder.online <https://devinprater.flounder.online/>
>
> >* On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:56 PM, forrest hilton <forrestmhilton at gmail.com <https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-accessibility>> wrote:
> *> >* Hello,
> *> >* I have recently written a small script <https://github.com/ForrestHilton/supplementary-reader/ <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.
> *> >* 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.
> *> >* I am aware of a few sloppy things in this script but it works for now.
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