Internet-based scanning of images, containing text, automatically converted to synthesized speech.

["Steve Jacobs" <steve.jacobs@ideal-group.org>]

Sorry, in advance, for duplicate posts.

Dear All,

The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) offers a free service that 
I thought might be of interest to those of you who have never heard of 
it. 

NLM's "DocMorph" website http://docmorph.nlm.nih.gov/docmorph/ allows 
users to upload scanned image files and other types of information for 
conversion to alternative formats. Some of the document conversion 
techniques offered by this server are not readily available elsewhere 
on the web. By using your web browser, you can upload files to DocMorph 
for conversion, and usually in less than one minute your results are 
ready. 

DocMorph's "Reading Room" allows you to submit either scanned images of 
printed material or text files.  DocMorph will return a web page that 
uses synthesized speech to read the material out loud.  

In my testing of DocMorph the text embedded in an image needs to be 
crisp.  If it is... DocMorph works like a champ!

Sincerely,

Steve

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