Glossary
Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.
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- ALTO(also: Analyzed Layout and Text Object, ALTO XML)
- An open XML format maintained by the US Library of Congress that stores the output of OCR (optical character recognition) together with the layout information of the scanned pages: character positions, confidence scores, candidate alternative characters, block and line geometry,…
- InftyReader(also: Infty Reader)
- A specialised optical character recognition (OCR) system designed to recognise mathematical expressions in scanned documents, developed by the Infty Project (Suzuki et al.). Unlike general-purpose OCR, InftyReader can accurately parse complex mathematical notation (fractions,…
- Kurzweil Reading Machine(also: KRM, Kurzweil Reader)
- A pioneering reading device for blind people invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1976, combining optical character recognition (OCR) with text-to-speech synthesis to read printed text aloud. The original device was as large as a stove and produced mechanical-sounding speech, but it…
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