Design and implementation of a smart reader for blind and visually impaired people.

According to the World Health Organization, out of 9.2 billion population around 287 million people are believed to be having imperceptive of vision. It is noticed that they are still facing difficulty to perform their daily routine and it is significant to take required action with the help of arising technology to help these kind of people to lead a normal life style like others irrespective of their disability in the idea of supporting them, we introduced a smart spectacle for the blind people which will perform text identification and by producing a speech outcome of the text. This can help the person with visual disability to read any printed note and identify in the form vocal note. The specs have an inbuilt camera to record the text note in the form of image with the help of Optical character Recognition (OCR). The captured text note is converted into speech or voice note which is sent to earphones by using a Text To Speech (TTS) technique. In our project the raspberry pi plays a major roll by providing an interface for the camera, sensors and the final outcome of image processing technique, which also controls the functions that can handle different operations of the peripheral units. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]