BLIND READER: An Intelligent Assistant for Blind

摘要

In the real world, books and documents are the sources of knowledge. But this knowledge is only bounded to people with clear vision. Our society includes a group of people who does not have a clear vision or people who are blind. For this group, world is like a black illusion. The shape and structure's information of an object is unavailable to them let alone reading a document. For blind acquiring knowledge by reading documents is cumbersome. Braille is one of the methods which is used to read a book or document. In this method, any document has to be converted to braille format to become understandable to a blind. The problem arises due to the fact that, this is an expensive procedure and many times not available. The solution is rather simple, introduce a smart device with a multimodal system that can convert any document to the interpreted form to a blind. A blind can read document only by tapping words which is then audibly presented through text to speech engine. "Blind Reader" - developed for touch devices which is user friendly and effective interactive system for visionless or low vision people.