1. bReader – Blind can read now

2. Outline How blind read? Motivation Introduction System Overview
Application Preview
Tools and Techniques Used in bReader
Implementation

3. How blind read?

4. Braille Patterns

5. Motivation
Blind Students
Burden of huge volume of Braille books

6. What is bReader?
bReader is an embedded application, which allows the visually impaired person to read books.
This application takes a picture of texts from book, then extracts texts from scanned picture and give its Braille output as well as audio of the text.

7. How does it work?
Camera target the image
Scanning
Extract Text

8. Use case for blind person to read text

9. Sequence diagram for blind person to read text

10. Flow Diagram From the book USER Clicks picture Scanning
Extract text from image
Embossing of characters and audio observed by user
Converting
Give Braille & audio output

11. Functional Requirements
REQ1: Camera will capture the picture.
REQ2: The software will scan or extract the text from the picture.
REQ3: The scanned text then embossed the characters on the braille device and also convert to the audio.

12. Tools and techniques used
Netbeans 8.2
Tesseract (Tess4J)
Free TTS library (Text to speech)
Arduino 1.8.2
Proteus 8 Professional

13. Hardware Required Bluetooth HC06 Arduino UNO LED Battery 9 Volt
Bread Board

14. Interface 1

15. Interface 2

16. Interface 3

17. Interface 4

18. Circuit diagram

19. Computer Prototype

20. Hardware Interface 1

21. Hardware interface 2

22. DEMO