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

说明与用途

Basira 是一款私有离线文档阅读器，帮助低视力用户在本地捕获、OCR、简化并朗读文档，确保隐私与独立性。

问题

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

结果

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.

工作流

• 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

证据

Basira reads it aloud and explains it in simple words

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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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