Accessible Shopping System for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals

Abstract

Self-Dependency of disabled persons is very important in their daily lives. This is a cost effective prototype system that help blind persons to shop independently. This paper presents a camera-based label reader for blind persons to read names of labels on the products. The proposed framework can be classified as image capturing, data processing audio output. In Image capturing web Camera is use to capture the image of object or product packaging and captured image is send to the image processing Platform. In Data processing the image is processed internally and the text will get filtered from the image. Finally, the filtered texts are output to blind users in the form voice. The Tesseract library is used to get the plain text from text region and flite library is used to get audio output. This proposed framework is implemented using Raspberry Pi board.