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The Pop-up Reader allows blind people, or people with a visual impairment to read any paper document, independently, using their iPhone.
It bridges a huge gap, apps can already do OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to convert photos into text, and, the phone can already turn that text into speech, but there is no way for that the blind person could take that picture, for example position the document in the view finder. And thats where the Pop-up Reader comes in.

It replaces these big, ugly and expensive scanners which cost around £2,000. I shared the design open source, so people can make it at home, themselves (with a helper or friend) for around £15, or buy one already made for £30.