A Portable Device for the Translation of Braille to Literary Text

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  • Iain Murray
  • Andrew Pasquale
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This paper presents the development of a portable device for the translation of embossed Braille to text. The device optically scans a Braille page and outputs the equivalent text output in real time, thus acting as a written communications gateway between sighted and vision impaired persons..

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تاریخ انتشار 2006