Basira: A Private, Offline Document Reader I Built for My Grandmother

Описание и применение

Basira – автономный офлайн‑ридер документов для людей с низким зрением, позволяющий бабушке самостоятельно читать и понимать письма, счета и инструкции, используя OCR, локальную LLM и TTS без передачи данных в облако.

Задача

My grandmother has low vision and cannot read small print on bills or medicine leaflets, making her dependent on others to understand important documents.

Результат

Basira runs entirely offline on a local computer, keeping sensitive documents private, and provides an accessible interface in Arabic and English for low‑vision users.

Рабочий процесс

• Capture a photo or upload a document
• OCR with Tesseract converts image to text
• Local LLM (Ollama qwen2.5:3b) rewrites text in simple language and highlights key info
• Piper TTS reads original or simplified text aloud

Доказательства

Basira reads it aloud and explains it in simple words

Источник

Everything runs on your own computer, with no cloud, no subscription, and no API keys.

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The flow is: photo → Tesseract → local LLM via Ollama → Piper → audio + text

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