Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC)

Volume 9, Number 4, March 2019

Display of A System of Reproduction of Printed Text for People With Visual Impairment

  Authors

Slađan Kantar1, Igor Medenica1, Jelena Vasiljević2,3, Miloš Jovanović2,3, Đorđe Babić2, Dhinaharan Nagamalai4, 1Faculty of Computer Science, University Union, Serbia, 2Faculty of Computer Science, University of Belgrade, Serbia, 3Institute Mihajlo Pupin, Serbia and 4Wireilla, Australia

  Abstract

Recent technologies are being used to facilitate and speed up the way in which printed materials are reproduced for people with visual impairment. In this paper, one of the audio playback methods will be described. With the help of the Google Assistant SDK and the OCR Space Libraries, an automated system is created that forwards the text recognized via webcam, through the local web server to the device that plays the text in segments. The goal of this system is to facilitate and improve the way in which people with this type of disability read and learn.

  Keywords

BeagleBone Black, OCR, Google Assistant SDK, NodeJS