Finger Vision for Visually Impaired

Abstract

In the present world visually impaired people use a state-of-art called Braille to read and interpret the text. But these books are available in only certain places and not in a great numbers. This makes visually impaired people to come out and enjoy the real world everyone is enjoying. To overcome this and to help visually impaired people to read the text on the go anywhere and under any circumstances we have proposed a system which is a wearable finger device that is worn on the pointing finger that can read aloud the text pointed by the pointing finger. This ensures the visually impaired people enjoy reading on their own and get a real life reading experience wearing this device. In the proposed system, a finger wearable device is put on the pointing finger and the device is mounted with camera that captures the word pointed by the finger. This image processed from TesserOCR is pre processed by image binarization. This image is then processed with TesseractOCR. Finger from the image is found and the word that's pointed is tracked down and is read aloud for the visually impaired. This helps the visually impaired person to get a real time reading experience. The goal of the project is to provide aid to blind and visually impaired with a portable device to read any text on the go, whether in the digital realm or physically, on any surface.