IJSEA Volume 9 Issue 4

Reading Device for Blind People using Python, OCR and GTTS

Supriya Kurlekar, Onkar A. Deshpande , Akash V. Kamble , Aniket A. Omanna , Dinesh B. Patil
10.7753/IJSEA0904.1003
keywords : Character recognition, Pi Camera, Raspberry Pi 2, Python Programming, Text To Speech (TTS), Speech Output.

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This paper presents the reader for Blind people, developed on Raspberry Pi 2. It uses the Optical character recognition technology for the identification of the printed characters using image sensing devices and computer programming [1]. It converts images of typed or printed text into machine encoded text. In this research these images are converted into the audio output (Speech) through the use of OCR and Text-to-speech synthesis. The conversion of printed document into text files is done using Raspberry Pi which again uses PyTesseract library and Python programming. The text files are processed & convert into the audio output (Speech) using GOOGLE Text-to-speech (gTTS) & python programming language and audio output is achieved.
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Title = "Reading Device for Blind People using Python, OCR and GTTS",
Journal ="International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications (IJSEA)",
Volume = "9",
Issue ="4",
Pages ="49 - 52",
Year = "2020",
Authors ="Supriya Kurlekar, Onkar A. Deshpande , Akash V. Kamble , Aniket A. Omanna , Dinesh B. Patil"}