Voice based application as medicine spotter for visually impaired

This paper proffers an application in order to expedite easy and innate way to find the medicine for the visually impaired people and to take it according to their Doctor's prescription. Visually impaired people need not be dependent and seek others help to find the medicine to be taken. This android application is used to overcome the difficulties they face in this scenario. In this application, a reminder is set which tells the user when to take the medicines, as voice output. The pictures of the medicine strip held in the hand are captured by the inbuilt camera of the mobile. The image is processed and consequently text localization and extraction is done by which the name of the medicine is identified. A spotter section is also consolidated with this application which checks the prescription which has been already uploaded in the user's mobile, compares with the name of the medicine identified and if the medicine has to be taken at that time, then it tells the quantity of medicine to be taken to the user as voice output. On receiving the voice output from the mobile, the user intakes their medicines according to their prescription. It can also be useful for uneducated people who suffer to find which medicine must be taken. Especially elder people who are not educated usually suffer to read their medicine names on their own. This idea would achieve good results in practice.