Welcome to Bookworm
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 and 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
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 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
Blind Pandas Team is a worldwide community of software developers, translators, and other types of makers who want to make the world more accessible through open-source, with the vision of upholding accessibility in words and actions. Connect with us via Twitter
Learn moreBookworm is supported by
Capeds
A Japan based non-profit organization, founded by blind Sudanese professionals to support the education of persons with disabilities in Sudan.
In February 2021 Capeds funded the project's infrastructure for the next three years, and sponsored the integration of Tesseract OCR engine into Bookworm.
Visit Website https://capeds.orgIf you or your organization would like to sponsor the project or a specific feature, please get in touch
Contact UsLatest News
Announcing the first beta of Bookworm version 0.4
Announcing The First Beta of Bookworm Version 0.4