Glossary

Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.

ALTO (Analyzed Layout and Text Object, ALTO XML)

An open XML format maintained by the US Library of Congress that stores the output of OCR (optical character recognition) together with the layout information of the scanned pages: character positions…

• file formats
• digitization
• OCR

InftyReader (Infty Reader)

A specialised optical character recognition (OCR) system designed to recognise mathematical expressions in scanned documents, developed by the Infty Project (Suzuki et al.). Unlike general-purpose OCR…

• Assistive Technology
• Mathematical Accessibility
• OCR
• accessible publishing

Kurzweil Reading Machine (KRM, Kurzweil Reader)

A pioneering reading device for blind people invented by Ray Kurzweil in 1976, combining optical character recognition (OCR) with text-to-speech synthesis to read printed text aloud. The original devi…

• assistive technology
• accessibility history
• visual impairment
• OCR