ReadMe! is a multipurpose accessibility app designed for people with dyslexia, myopia, and other visual impairment disabilities by using computer vision and machine learning to display and read text.
ReadMe is an android app (at the moment) that takes advantage of Google's Firebase text recognition API in order to do real-time text translation to dyslexic friendly typeface using the phone camera. In addition, ReadMe is able to read gallery images, relaying them to the user by text-to-speech and dyslexic friendly typeface. The design of the application is focused around a color-blind palette and large, hard to miss buttons to get users straight to the purpose of the app: to help.
ReadMe currently supports some Latin-based languages, including English, French, and Spanish, in both OCR and text-to-speech.
As of right now, ReadMe is compatible with Android 10, Android Pie, and some past versions as well.
ReadMe was created initially at Hack @ Brown 2020 by Joe Han, Jeremy Chen, Jason Ho, and Steven Cheung.
This app is currently not live on the Play Store. Feel free to download the app files, but please note that you will need your own google-services.json for the API to function correctly.
- Planning on adding more language support as dyslexic font is created, especially for East Asian languages
- Feature to freeze live camera feed so the OCR is more readable
- Make black text boxes larger, change size of text to be dynamic
- Update camera feed less often so the live camera OCR is more readable