Developed as a Computer Science Senior Design Project at [Stevens Institute of Technology](https://www.stevens.edu/) in collaboration with the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org/).
You can find the PyPi package [here](https://pypi.org/project/alt-text/). To install the package via, you can execute the following in a terminal for your respective system...
The Alt-Text Backend needs an instance of [Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/) to operate. You can use one hosted elsewhere or [download Postgres](https://www.postgresql.org/download/).
The Alt-Text Backend requires that you have a Description, OCR, and Language Engine (info can be found at [Alt-Text Project README](https://github.com/EbookFoundation/alt-text)).
The Alt-Text project is developed for the [Free Ebook Foundation](https://ebookfoundation.org/) as a Senior Design Project at [Stevens Institute of Technology](https://www.stevens.edu/).
As Ebooks become a more prominant way to consume written materials, it only becomes more important for them to be accessible to all people. Alternative text (aka alt-text) in Ebooks are used as a way for people to understand images in Ebooks if they are unable to use images as intended (e.g. a visual impaired person using a screen reader to read an Ebook).
While this feature exists, it is still not fully utilized and many Ebooks lack alt-text in some, or even all their images. To illustrate this, the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/), the creator of the Ebook and now a distributor of Public Domain Ebooks, have over 70,000 Ebooks in their collection and of those, there are about 470,000 images without alt-text (not including images with insufficient alt-text).
The Alt-Text project's goal is to use the power of various AI technologies, such as machine vision and large language models, to craft a solution capable of assisting in the creation of alt-text for Ebooks, closing the accessibility gap and improving collections, such as the [Gutenberg Project](https://gutenberg.org/).
### Contact Information
The emails and relevant information of those involved in the Alt-Text project can be found below.