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Bookworm (by Blind Pandas Team)

Bookworm is a document reader that allows you to read more than 15 document formats including PDF, EPUB, and MOBI using a versatile, yet simple, and highly accessible interface.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Application type

Platforms

  • Windows
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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Built-in Dictionary
  2.  Fill PDF Forms
  3.  Spell Checking
  4.  OCR
  5.  Support for MarkDown
  6.  Full-Text Search
  7.  No registration required
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Text to Speech
  10.  No Tracking
  11.  Ebook Conversion
  12.  PDF annotation
  13.  Support for scripting
  14.  Sign PDF files
  15.  Portable
  16.  Cloud Sync

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  •  55 Forks
  •  41 Open Issues
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Bookworm (by Blind Pandas Team), and it has gotten 3 likes

Bookworm (by Blind Pandas Team) was added to AlternativeTo by Nikola Jovanovic on and this page was last updated .

Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Alexandre Alexandre
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I'm trying, but Win10 didn't like it...

Eacker
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Not a PDF reader like the rest. It modifies the document to only show text, no images, no font differences, etc.

NOT RECOMMENDED.

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What is Bookworm (by Blind Pandas Team)?

Bookworm is a document reader that allows you to read more than 15 document formats including PDF, EPUB, and MOBI using a versatile, yet simple, and highly accessible interface.

Bookworm provides you with a rich set of tools for reading your documents. You can search the document, bookmark and highlight interesting content, use Text to Speech, and convert scanned documents to plain text using Optical Character Recgonition OCR

Bookworm runs on Microsoft Windows operating system. It works well with your favorite screen reader such as NVDA icon NVDA and JAWS icon JAWS.

Even if no screen reader is active, Bookworm can function as a self-voicing application using its builtin text-to-speech features.

Bookworm is a free and open-source application, visit our GitHub page to follow Bookworm's development. Highlights

  • Ubiquitous & Versatile Bookworm supports most of the documents formats you may encounter, and it allows you to read them in a simple, versatile interface.

  • 100% Accessible Bookworm is accessible by design. Every feature of the application is crafted to be accessible and easy to use using assistive technologies.

  • Fully Featured Out of the box, Bookworm comes with Text-to-speech, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), article extractor, Wikipedia integration, and more...

  • Annotations Do not only read documents, interact with them. That's why Bookworm allows you to bookmark, highlight, and take notes.

  • Modern Bookworm offers you the reading experience you expect from a modern document reader. Adaptive technologies should be simple not simplistic.

  • Free & Open-source Bookworm is a free and open-source application. You can run it, modify it, and learn from it without restrictions.

Features at a glance

  • A screen shot of Bookworm's main window with an open book
  • Available in 7 languages and counting
  • Use the familiar single letter navigation keys to jump between headings, lists, tables, and quotes
  • Advanced search options, specify search ranges and use regular expressions
  • builtin text-to-speech using SAPI5 and Win10 OneCore speech engine
  • Convert scanned documents to text using Tesseract icon Tesseract or the builtin Win10 OCR engine
  • Clean the clutter from web pages and read web articles without adds or interruptions
  • Different reading modes for different document types, reading a document that contains code? no problem!
  • Search Wikipedia and get an instant definition for any term

Bookworm is developed by Blind Pandas Team