Making Arabic PDF books accessible using gamification

W4A 2014 - 11th Web for All Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  AlRouqi, Hend ^a   Al Khalifa, Hend S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Arabic; EBooks; PDF documents

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

ACCESSIBILITY; ARABIC; E-BOOKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION AND MATCHING; HUMAN RECOGNITION; PDF DOCUMENT; SIMILARITY MEASURE; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84901291404     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2596695.2596712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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