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I m working on a project that helps visually impaired people to listen to the writings on the printed paper. I have dealed with the part of converting printed text picture into pdf file with digital writing. Now I want espeak to access that writing and read it loud using python. can someone guide ?

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A very simple image-to-voice conversion can be done from the command line by piping the output of tesseract-ocr Install tesseract-ocr to espeak. This can be done without further coding or conversions directly from an image source:

tesseract image.png stdout | espeak
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