Contributor :

Krishi Jain

Mentor :

Nalin Sathyan
LIOS is a free and open-source software for converting printed text into digital text using either a scanner or a camera. It can also extract text from scanned images sourced from PDF files, images, folders containing images, or screenshots. The program is designed with total accessibility for visually impaired users.

Contributor :

Krishi Jain

Mentor :

Nalin Sathyan
LIOS is a free and open-source software for converting printed text into digital text using either a scanner or a camera. It can also extract text from scanned images sourced from PDF files, images, folders containing images, or screenshots. The program is designed with total accessibility for visually impaired users.

About Contributor

Krishi is currently in his final year at DJ Sanghvi College of Engineering pursuing B.Tech in Computer Science (IoT, Cybersecurity, Blockchain). He is a 6 time hackathon winner and has contributed in 2 open source programmes which includes DMP where he got the opportunity to work on a product that impacts the lives of many users with special visual needs worldwide. His project is a part of the official Debian repository. Krishi is a musician as well who occasionally posts bollywood covers on Instagram and performs at college fests.

About Mentor

With over 10 years dedicated to software development for the visually impaired, Nalin is the technological force driving Zendalona. In addition to his work at Zendalona, he plays a key role in mentoring students during their full-time projects and internships. He has mentored numerous projects in GSoC - Google Summer of Code and C4GT - Code for GovTech. Nalin has participated in Google Summer of Code multiple times and has conducted workshops at IIT Delhi, Madras, and Bombay

Key Impact Takeaways:

  1. LIOS is a part of the official Debian repository.
  2.  This project is used by over 1L users worldwide.

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