Humans have naturally tendency to point fingers at various objects. Why not use this ability to get information about our world? Here is a project called Finger Tip Reader which helps visually impaired people to read any kind of text without the need to learn braille.
The project was done in collaboration with the following people to satisfy credit requirements for course EC1306 Electronics for Service of Society at VJTI.
- Vishal Medida
- Chinmay Pinglay
- Varun Zope
- Vishal Chaudhari
- Abhishek Sawarkar
A camera mounted on the finger inputs text and pre-processes the image. An image to text engine called Tesseract OCR converts the image into text. Another engine called microsoft SAPI converts this text into speech output. Hence the camera input is output into speech format.
The project is done in visual studio 2013, using visual C++ Libraries used are OpenCV + Tesseract + Microsoft SAPI
Instructions:
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Download Visual Studio 2013
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Download this project as zip or git clone it
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Install opencv and tesseract libraries. Installation guide is provided on their official website
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Install SAPI text to speech engine
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Run the solution. Main program is in the source.cpp file
Inspired from: http://fluid.media.mit.edu/projects/fingerreader