JAKARTA - Google announced it will soon launch a new capability that allows Chrome to be able to convert PDFs to text directly, for users with visual limitations.
"Most of the web content is inaccessible to those who have difficulty reading. In fact, based on our internal analysis, there are more than 360 billion PDFs that are not accessible to blind people or have poor vision and rely on screen readers," Jonatan Bernal, Product Manager, ChromeOS said in a Google blog.
Although there has been a development push over the last 30 years, there are still many PDFs that cannot be accessed. So with the help of AI, Google created a built-in Chrome browser feature to help fix this problem for everyone.
In March, Google introduced read mode, which makes it easier for students to read text by making it bigger, changing fonts, and removing interference, in Chrome browsers on ChromeOS devices. Now, read mode will also be available for Chrome browsers on all computers.
It doesn't stop there, Google also adds more functions to PDF, where the search giant will be able to convert images into text for PDF in Chrome browsers on ChromeOS.
"This means that when screen reader users find PDFs that don't have alternative text (image descriptions that are embedded and readable by screen readers), screen readers will be able to convert images into text and read them out loud," Google added.
Well, the mode of reading and image to text will begin rolling out in the coming months.
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