CanRead

eBooks are awesome -- all those bells and whistles, videos, links to click, buttons!

They're not so awesome if you're one of the millions of people who have dyslexia or another language-based learning disability.

CanRead extracts a stream of text from an e-book and hands it to Spritz, a technology that shows one word at a time, with one letter highlighted at the optimal recognition point to help a reader quickly grasp each word.

Try CanRead

Want to try CanRead? See the CanRead project site.

How CanRead Was Created

CanRead was created at the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Creative Codefest, a hackathon that took place in Boston, MA on June 26 and 27, 2015.

Team

CanRead was created by Noah Teshu, Yee Ling Gan [Elaine], Lisa Williams, Simon Tran, and Josh Mendes Yeusufu.

Tools

CanRead is primarily a Javascript application that makes use of two primary APIs:

• The HMH Content API to extract text from eBooks;
• The Spritz SDK.