Text Detection and Recognition with Speech Output in Mobile Application for Assistance to Visually Challenged Person [ ]


Now a day’s use of mobile is broadly increased every person possesses a mobile phone, in which lots of application run. Using Android mobile phones we can help the visually challenged people by providing easy reading of text boards and printed text information in the form of audio. Reading text from printed text images and text boards is a challenging task for visually challenged persons. The proposed system extracts and recognizes text from scene images and converts that recognized text into speech. This application is very helpful and handy for visually challenged person. The novelty of this work is to convert image containing text into speech.