StripReader

A guided reading strip for digital content.

This backend implementation of stripreader takes a file as input, extracts and splits the text into variably sized chunks that can then be presented by a client implementation.

This works in a similar fashion as the “Guided Reading Strips” for reading on paper, commonly used by people with various visual/reading dysfunctions.

Test Usage

go run server.go &
echo -n '{"Path": "example_text.txt", "Size": 20"}' | nc -v localhost 3333

The response will be a JSON object looking like this:

{"chunks":["Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc quis dapibus
urna, sed ornare nisi. Suspendisse sed semper orci. Donec ","eu ornare metus. Suspendisse
semper metus sit amet magna cursus fringilla. Aliquam volutpat sed risus sit amet
posuere. Integer vulputate ","sit amet dui lacinia malesuada. In hac habitasse platea
dictumst. Morbi luctus venenatis laoreet. Nunc malesuada accumsan arcu vitae
scelerisque. ","Donec nec accumsan dui. Orci varius natoque penatibus et magnis dis
parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.\n\nAenean elementum neque nibh, non ","porta
magna congue id. Curabitur tempus nisl ut nisi scelerisque tincidunt. Vestibulum lorem
risus, sollicitudin eget dui id, rutrum rhoncus ","quam. Aliquam magna dolor, placerat sit
amet risus eu, lobortis hendrerit mauris. Donec posuere sed sapien ac pellentesque. Donec
finibus ","urna dignissim risus condimentum pretium. Sed erat lorem, sodales id ligula
sed, dictum porta est. Duis sit amet metus vitae ","enim finibus volutpat. Maecenas
sodales gravida ante, quis vulputate eros malesuada ut.\n\nMorbi malesuada sodales tellus,
a finibus metus eleifend vitae. ","Suspendisse ex diam, congue nec placerat ac, mattis vel
nisl. Donec sit amet ligula dignissim, accumsan sem id, lobortis lorem. ","Maecenas ut
facilisis enim, at vestibulum leo. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nunc orci libero,
venenatis eu sodales condimentum, sagittis ","at est. Fusce finibus mollis
lobortis. Phasellus aliquam felis justo, eget pulvinar nibh semper porttitor.\n\n "]}

Milestones

v 0.1

• [X] Read a simple text file from path defined by input
• [X] Split the text into chunks of N words
• [X] Distribute chunks in JSON format via websocket

v 0.2

• [ ] Support PDF files
• [ ] Continously distribute pages of chunks instead of everything at once

v 0.3

• [ ] Extend chunking capabilities (sentences, char lengths, paragraphs, etc.)