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Show HN: App for my grandpa to help him read printed text (OCR+TTS)
- artpi 7y agoMy grandpa (88 y/o) is pretty active, but his eyesight is very bad. He manages to use his tablet in limited ways because some apps can make the font enormous. But what is really problematic is the tiny text on prescriptions, medicine leaflets, bus stop timetable, etc. I get a call at least once a week that some letter has come in and he cannot read it and I need to help him. (the most annoying part is that's usually spam or some incomprehensible gov document sent for compliance). So I built an app for him, where he can snap a photo and it is recognized and later read out loud to him. Stack: - A Web App (full JavaScript) - Native camera capture - Google Cloud Vision for OCR - Web Speech API for Text-To-Speech All Open Source, available here https://github.com/artpi/help-me-read https://github.com/artpi/help-me-read . Google Cloud Vision API is called directly from JavaScript (if you have a token), so you don't have to rely on my servers. PRs welcome :)