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Innovations in Information and Communication Technology

Advances in Computing, Communication, Automation and Biomedical Technology

Smart Reader for Visually Challenged Using Optical Character Recognition and Text-To-Speech

R.Sowmya, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, KPR Institute of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India

Sushma S Jagtap, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Rajalakshmi Engineering College, Chennai, India

Gnanamoorthy Kasthuri, Senior Software Engineer, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions private Ltd., Coimbatore, India

Abstract

Assistive technology uses assistive, adaptive and rehabilitative devices for people with disabilities. It’s assessed there are about 36 million people with visual impairment in the world and a further 216 million who lead life with moderate to severe visual impairments. Leveraging technology has helped the visually challenged in carrying out tasks on par with the people blessed with vision particularly in the activities of reading and writing. In the proposed work, an image scanning device attached to a microcontroller is designed. This device is designed in the form of hand gloves for ease of usage. The glove with the camera at the fingertip, when rolled over lines of text, scans the information and converts it into digital text with Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The converted digital text is finally read aloud using Textto- speech synthesis. The results obtained were accurate and met the standards of operability.

Keywords

Optical Character Recognition; Text-to-speech.

Cite this article

R.Sowmya, Sushma S Jagtap, Gnanamoorthy Kasthuri, “Certain Investigation on the Challenges and Prospects of Internet of Things (IoT)”, Innovations in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 205-208, December 2020.

Copyright

© 2020 R.Sowmya, Sushma S Jagtap, Gnanamoorthy Kasthuri. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.