A Cloud-Based Image and Content Reading for Visually Impaired

Electronics and Communication Engineering

NATIONAL CONFERENCE on VLSI, COMMUNICATION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (NCVCS-2017)

Visually impaired individuals are a growing segment of our population, the inability to read has a substantive negative impact on their quality of life. Printed text (books, magazines, menus, labels, etc.) still represents a sizable portion of the information this group needs to have unrestricted access to. Hence, developing method by which text can be retrieved and read out loud to the visually impaired is critical. In this work, we discuss the design and implementation of assistive platform, in this combine today’s smart phone capabilities with the advantages offered by the rapidly growing cloud resources. The approach makes use of an Optical character Recognition (OCR) engine on the cloud and use local resources for the Text-to-Speech (TTS) conversion. Prototypes are successfully developed and tested with favorable results.

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