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ocr-extension

It's a Firefox extension, designed to help blind programmers to understand example codes that were included in the tutorial as an image, and does not have an alt tag or a description; it uses the OCR Space API to 'read' the image.

How to use

  1. Download the repository on master branch
  2. Create your own ApiKey on OCR Space website and insert it on const apikey = 'yourapikey' on main.js
  3. Open about:debugging on Firefox and click on Enable add-on debugging and Load Temporary Add-on
  4. Select the manifest.json file and click ok.

That's it!

Future plans

Today

  • Be approved on FAC (Yes, this is a university project for Fundamentals of Computer Architecture at UFF/RJ)

Next months

  • Make the extension smart, using machine learning to better understand the images
  • Put this project on Firefox add-on pages

Special thanks

  • To André Garzia (@soapdog) who helped me through promise of promise on JavaScript for Firefox Extensions
  • To all my group, even those who didn't help by coding, but by making an awesome presentation of what we've done: Bruno (@bnbelizario), Emilly (@EmillyLeao), Letícia and Pedro.