An Electronic Aid for Visually Impaired in Reading Printed Text
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چکیده
The visually impaired are the people who can have permanent or temporary loss of vision. Such people cannot see, read or write as the normal human beings. There are several substituting equipments and aid to help them lead a normal life. Similarly to read, Braille notations are being used. These Braille editions are not available for each text book. Thus to help them read the conventional text book, this paper describes a portable electronic reading aid. This electronic reading aid captures the printed text as the image and recognizes the character using the OCR system. The OCR system sends the ASCII representation of the character to the ARDUINO UNO board which correspondingly actuates the Braille display. When the visually impaired person touches the Braille display, they could understand the printed text.
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