A Smart Reader for Blind People
L Latha1, V Geethani2, M Divya Dharshini3, P Thangam4
1L Latha, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), India.
2V Geethani, Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), India.
3M Divya Dharshini, Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), India.
4P Thangam, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, SaudiArabia.
Manuscript received on 30 September 2019 | Revised Manuscript received on 12 November 2019 | Manuscript Published on 22 November 2019 | PP: 1566-1568 | Volume-8 Issue-6S3 September 2019 | Retrieval Number: F12850986S319/19©BEIESP | DOI: 10.35940/ijeat.F1285.0986S319
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Abstract: This paper presents an intelligent bot for aiding the visually challenged people. Presently, 81% are visually impaired who live in the developing countries. Nowadays Human communication is mainly focused on text and speech. To read the text a human needs a vision. Survey conducted on several papers and systems provides hardware consisting of a camera interface with Raspberry Pi for processing the text. The camera captures text image of a handwritten or printed text. The raspberry pi makes use of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software installed in it, to perform the conversion of an image to text and similarly text to speech conversion. The assistant is applicable for visually impaired people as well as for normal people in order to increase their level of comfort.
Keywords: Text to Speech, Image to Text, Optical Character Recognition, Raspberry Pi, Speech Output, Python Programming.
Scope of the Article: IoT and Smart City Application Systems