Abstract :
— This work presents a camera-based label reader
to assist blind persons to read a product name. Camera
serves as main vision in detecting the label image of the
product or board then image is processed internally and
separates label from image and finally recognizes the
product and identified product name is pronounced through
voice. Now it recognizes received label image is
transformed to text. Once the identified label name is
transformed to text and converted text is displayed on
display unit connected to controller. Now converted text
should be transformed to voice to hear label name as voice
over ear phones connected to audio jack port.
Keyword :
Assistive devices, blindness, stroke orientation, hand-held objects, optical character recognition (OCR), distribution of edge pixels, text reading, and text region localization.