pyScanBookApp

A project by Insight(http://www.insight.kerala.gov.in)

A light weight gnome based GUI for organising the scanning and converting printed materials to text files process. The application supports an user to organise his scanned books images as text files in a folder named 'Books' in the home folder of the system.
An user can easily scan papers or pages individually at one press. While scanning a bulk of pages, application creates a folder, and subsequent scanned pages are automatically added to this created folder.

The application detects the ocr in the system and the user can specify the needed engine while scanning a book.
User can add/remove any book or pages at one click
User can select the sound engine, espeak or festival, if available in the system.
While reading, user can zoomin, zoom out or invert color of display.