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Orca is a free and open-source, flexible, extensible screen reader from the GNOME project for individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Using various combinations of speech synthesis and braille, Orca helps provide access to applications and toolkits that support AT-SPI (e.g., the GNOME desktop, Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird, OpenOffice ...
Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems. [5] It is free software, released under the Apache License. [1] [6] [7] Originally developed by Hewlett-Packard as proprietary software in the 1980s, it was released as open source in 2005 and development was sponsored by Google in 2006.
Visual Studio Code was first announced on April 29, 2015 by Microsoft at the 2015 Build conference. A preview build was released shortly thereafter. [14]On November 18, 2015, the project "Visual Studio Code — Open Source" (also known as "Code — OSS"), on which Visual Studio Code is based, was released under the open-source MIT License and made available on GitHub.
NonVisual Desktop Access (NVDA) is a free and open-source, portable screen reader [1] for Microsoft Windows. [2] The project was started by Michael Curran in 2006. [3] NVDA is programmed in Python. It utilizes accessibility APIs such as UI Automation, Microsoft Active Accessibility, IAccessible2 and Java Access Bridge, to access and present ...
OpenEXR is a high-dynamic range, multi-channel raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license. [3] It is notable for supporting multiple channels of potentially different pixel sizes, including 32-bit unsigned ...
Okular was started for the Google Summer of Code of 2005 by Piotr Szymański. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Okular was identified as a success story of the 2007 Season of Usability . [ 5 ] In this season, the Okular toolbar mockup was created based on an analysis of other popular document viewers and a usage survey.
Introduction. Free and open-source software (FOSS) is software that is distributed in a manner that allows its users to run the software for any purpose, to redistribute copies of it, and to examine, study, and modify, the source code. FOSS is also a loosely associated movement of multiple organizations, foundations, communities and individuals ...
Lector was developed by a Spanish programmer known as BasioMeusPuga[ 2 ] He started publishing code on GitHub in November 2017. [ 3 ] and released on March 10, 2018. Initially there was no support for annotations or text highlighting, neither for PDF files. Preliminary PDF support via Poppler was released in spring 2018 in version 0.2. [ 4 ][ 1 ]