In this paper, we present a system for reading documents,
which can be used by the visually disabled by themselves.
Our system uses speech to transmit the information to the 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 access to the information.
A tree-traversing command is provided for navigating through the
logical tree generated by the system.
A layered speech menu/help is used to guide users.
The scanned and recognized pages can be linked on the basis of the page
numbers detected, and
can be stored in a file system for later use.
By: Kazuhide Sugawara
Published in: RT0361 in 2002
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