• A Poonguzhali
• Kouser Banu
• Ranjitha K D
• Krishnamurthy Harathi
• Ningappa

According to WHO (World Health Organization) approximately 1.3 billion have some form of visual impairment. In which 188.5 million people have mild vision impairment, 217 million people have moderate to severe vision loss and 36 million people have complete blindness. Though there are several existing system to assist a visually impaired person to read, none of them provide a reading experience similar to a sighted person. This paper aims at making a system using Raspberry Pi which can read a book aloud for visually impaired. Here the system can read a book aloud and also turn its pages automatically. An additional feature of recording the pages is also made available for future reference. A camera is used to capture the images of the book and then Image to Text conversion is carried out followed by Text to Speech conversion. OCR (optical character recognition) is used for Image to Text conversion. OCR is the recognition of text characters by scanning. It involves photo scanning of text characters-by-character and then converting it into its respective character value such as ASCII value. After the recognition of characters E-speak voice command software is used to convert the obtained text from OCR into speech signals. Finally a speaker which is connected to the Raspberry Pi is used to read aloud the speech.

Raspberry Pi, OCR (optical character recognition), Image to Text conversion, Text to Image conversion, E-speak

"Smart Book Reader System for Visually Impaired", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.672-674, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06141.pdf

"Smart Book Reader System for 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. pp672-674, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRCJ06141.pdf