Title :
Document reading system for the visually disabled
Author :
Sugawara, Kazuhide
Author_Institution :
Res. Lab., IBM Japan Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
In this paper, we present a system for reading printed documents, which can be used by the visually disabled. Our system uses speech to transmit printed information to users. To cope with the slowness of the information transmission speed caused by the one-dimensionality of speech, the logical structure of the scanned documents is extracted and used to accelerate the access to the information. A tree-traversing command is provided for navigating through the logical tree generated by the system
Keywords :
document image processing; handicapped aids; speech-based user interfaces; document image analysis; document reading system; logical structure extraction; reading printed documents; speech; speech user interface; visually disabled; Acceleration; Control systems; Data mining; Image color analysis; Laboratories; Navigation; Optical character recognition software; Speech analysis; Speech synthesis; Text analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0253-9
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1999.778625
