• Monisha M R
• Sneha B
• Surya Karan R

The world health organization has proposed that there are 250 million visually impaired people around the world. Among the 250 million, about 15 million are in India. The visually challenged are at a considerable difficulty because they often lack the information for avoiding obstacles and hazards in their path, to overcome this ultrasonic stick were introduced. The navigation systems available were hefty and very difficult to operate. Our project has been aimed at progress of smart spectacles which helps in navigation for the visually challenged people. The proposed idea will detect an obstacle using ultrasonic sensors and gives audio instructions through the ear phones. It will capture the images using web camera by detecting the human face when a person enters into the frame. It also involves text extraction from scanned image using Tesseract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and converting the text to speech by e-Speak tool, which helps the blind people to recognize the surroundings in real world by extracting the text on image and converting it into speech. This technology helps lots of people in the world who experience a significant loss of vision.

"Intelligent Spectacles for the Visually Impaired ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.123-132, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06020.pdf

"Intelligent Spectacles for the Visually Impaired ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp123-132, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06020.pdf