CanRead

eBooks are awesome -- all those bells and whistles, videos, links to click, buttons!

They're not so awesome if you're one of the millions of people who have dyslexia or another language-based learning disability.

CanRead extracts a stream of text from an e-book and hands it to Spritz, a technology that shows one word at a time, with one letter highlighted at the optimal recognition point to help a reader quickly grasp each word.

Try CanRead

Want to try CanRead? See the CanRead project site(link is external).

How CanRead Was Created

CanRead was created at the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Creative Codefest(link is external), a hackathon that took place in Boston, MA on June 26 and 27, 2015.

Team

CanRead was created by Noah Teshu(link is external), Yee Ling Gan(link is external) [Elaine], Lisa Williams(link is external), Simon Tran(link is external), and Josh Mendes Yeusufu(link is external).

Tools

CanRead is primarily a Javascript application that makes use of two primary APIs:

• The HMH Content API(link is external) to extract text from eBooks;
• The Spritz SDK(link is external).