- MS Word - For editing Docx files and making them accessible
- Browser Extensions for Accessiblity Evaluation of HTML documents:
- Adobe Acrobat Pro - For Editing PDFs and making them accessible
- Pandoc 2.13+ - Used for coverting to various formats (PDF not supported)
- Poppler PDF binaries (pdftotext, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdfimages etc.)
- MikTeX - LaTex to html - A LaTeX installation containing
make4htand tex4ht
| S.No. | Name of the tool | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tesseract OCR | An Opensource Tool for OCR of documents with multiple languages and form (provides less accuracy than other paid tools and don't have support for math content) |
| 2 | Abbyy Finereader | Provides offline recognition for most of roman scripts based content and other major languages |
| 3 | Infty Reader | Provides offline Roman scripts content and Math Recognition |
| 4 | Google Cloud Vision | API based tool to convert various regional languages and handwritten content. Provided very good accuracy for images with low resolution as well |
| 5 | Mathpix | An Online tool for recognizing Math and Chemical diagrams from PDFs. Provides good accuracy for Math, Headings and Tables detection |
- EPUB Reader - Thorium
- EPUB Accessibility Checker - DAISY Ace (“app” or “cli”)
- EPUB Editor (e.g. Sigil)
- Windows: NVDA
- Mac OS: VoiceOver (preinstalled) Learn more
- ChromeOS: ChromeVox (preinstalled)
- Linux: Gnome Orca (usually preinstalled)
- Powershell, xterm, etc.
- Git for Windows (PC) or Terminal (Linux/macOS)