LearnToRead

Inspiration

Giving back to the community, specifically kids. Our goal is to have kids helping kids; peer-to-peer learning.

What it does

Users can snap a picture of the text they are reading. Next they can upload the image to the LearnToRead web application. Our application then processes the image and prompts the user to highlight specific words that they are unfamiliar with. LearnToRead helps the user pronounce and understand the word by saying the word out loud.

How I built it

This application was built using Python, Tesseract text-to-speech application, HTML and CSS

What's next for LearnToRead

The next steps for this application include making it accessible via mobile devices.

Submitted to

Ignition Hacks 2020

Created by

I researched about how to allow the user to select the text in the image they want (text box/highlight function) and worked on creating and saving the screenshot to be used in the image to text program created by my team member. I also worked on converting the text to a list to be used in the text to speech created by another team member. Throughout the hackathon, I also helped sort out connection issues and errors.

Inaya Rajwani
I worked on the basic web application! I coded the website design and edited half of the video in submission.

Akshara Debnath
2nd year computer science student
I created the actual Python code which extracts text from an image. Then it converts it from text to speech.

Hasan Majid
I worked on the text to speech that allows the user to save an mp3 and i also helped check teammates code and fix errors

Vanessa Lobo