Aid for The Blind’s Using Raspberry Pi

Abstract

Text consisting of letters and Speech with any language are the prime sources for communication in humans. To access the text information and to recognize the faces or any other things any individual needs vision. If any person has poor or loss of vision can access the information only from hearing to the voice. This project paper proposes assistive text reading system with the help of camera to help the blind person and visually weakened individual to read the text information existing on the image taken from the camera. The faces and currency notes will be able to sensed and recognized by capturing the image of the face and currency notes from camera. The proposed idea involves extracting the text from the captured image is done with optical character recognition (OCR) then transforming extracted text into speech using a speech synthesizer e-Speak tool. Image processing techniques and face detection and recognition is used to recognize the currency and face respectively with the help of open CV software. This paper presents a prototype to assist and help the people suffering from the loss of vision to get the text data and to recognize the currency notes and known faces. This prototype comforts lots of individuals suffering from vision loss and disorders.