Lexis

An online reading assistant for people with dyslexia.

Key Features • First-time set-up • Technologies

Key Features

• Document import and OCR
• Make documents dyslexia-friendly
• Read text aloud using text-to-speech
• Reading ruler

First-time set-up

1. Package installation

cd server
npm ci
cd ..
cd client
npm ci

Install Tesseract

For MacOS

brew install tesseract

For Windows

Download the installer from the Tesseract GitHub repository and follow the installation instructions.

Install Vietnamese package

Download Vietnamese language data file.

Locate file to folder tessdata.

2. Enviroment variables

• Clone the /client/.env.template file into /client/.env
• Fill in empty fields (if any)

3. Boot the application

The Back-end

cd server
npm run dev

The front-end

cd client
npm start

Technologies

This project is built with:

• Node.js
• React
• Express
• Tesseract