System and method to enable blind people to have access to information printed on a physical document

摘要

The present invention is directed to a user system, a method for use in a user system, and a computer program for accessing information related to a physical document. The method comprises the steps of: identifying a physical document; identifying and locating an electronic copy of said identified document; identifying one or a plurality of pages of said physical document and identifying a part of the identified physical document using the position of points pressed on a touch foil successively placed and aligned over or under said identified pages; retrieving from the electronic copy of the physical document, data related to the selected part of the document; presenting said retrieved data visually or orally on the user workstation.