13. The method of claim 9 , wherein the documents include books, memos, newspapers or journals.
9. A method for controlling a reading machine while reading a document to a user, the method comprising: receiving by a processor device an image of a document; applying by the processor device the received image of the document to an optical character recognition engine to produce a text file; accessing by the processor device a knowledge base that provides data that identifies sections in one or more documents; processing, by the processor device, a received user command to select a section in the received image of the document; identifying by the processor device the section based on data provided from the knowledge base and the text file; and applying by the processor device text-to-speech processing to a portion of the text file that corresponds to the selected section of the document, to produce a speech file that when rendered reads the identified section of the document aloud to the user.