Portable Camera Based Assitive Product Label Reading for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals

Abstract

Self-Dependency of blind people is very important in their day-to-day lives. This paper presents a cost effective prototype system to help blind persons to shop independently. As we know printed text is everywhere like product names, instructions on medicine bottles, restaurant menus, signed boards etc. To read these text blind and visually impaired people need some help. This paper presents a camera-based assistive product label reader for blind persons to read information of the products. It is hard to detect text due to the variations of text font, sizes, color text, clutter background and different orientation. In this paper Camera is used to captured the image of the product .Then captured image is processed internally using different algorithms such as text localization and text recognition algorithm to extract text the label from image by using MATLAB .The extracted text label is converted to audio output using text to speech converter and it is pronounced as audio to the blind person.