A PyPi package used for finding, generating, and setting alt-text for images in HTML files. The Alt-Text project is developed for the Free Ebook Foundation as a Senior Design Project at Stevens Institute of Technology.

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Alt-Text

A PyPi package used for finding, generating, and setting alt-text for images in HTML and EPUB files.

Getting Started

Our Mission

The Alt-Text project is developed for the Free Ebook Foundation as a Senior Design Project at Stevens Institute of Technology.

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, 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 170,000 images without alt-text.

The Alt-Text project's goal is to use the power of AI, Automation, and the Internet to craft a solution capable of automatically generating descriptions for images lacking alt-text in Ebooks, closing the accessibility gap and improving collections, such as the Gutenberg Project.

Contact Information

The emails and relevant information of those involved in the Alt-Text project can be found below.

APIs, Tools, & Libraries Used

Alt-Text is developed using an assortment of modern Python tools...

Development Tools

Alt-Text is developed using...

BeautifulSoup4

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