An Assistant Reading System for Visually Impaired People

Abstract

In the real world, books and documents are the sources of knowledge. This knowledge is only bounded to people with clear vision but not for visually impaired people in our society. As a God’s gift we gain many advantages with our vision. Our society includes a group of people who does not have a clear vision or people who are visually impaired. For this group, world is like a black world. They have no idea about anything or shape or any language. The only way to get information for them is Braille. As a common courtesy, Braille is one of the much expensive way for people. The solution is rather simple, introduce a smart device with a multimodal system that can convert Malayalam text document into audio. A blind can read document only by capturing words which is then audibly presented through text-to-speech engine.

Keywords: blind, low-vision, visually impaired, braille, screen reader, braille printer, screen magnifier, smart reader, dynamic scroll, haptic sense

Cite this Article: Mohamed Raneeb, Abdul Haleem Illikkal, Aparna Krishna, Anas M., Grace Elsa George. An Assistant Reading System for Visually Impaired People. International Journal of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition. 2019; 5(2): 1–6p.