1. Braille Converter For Exam 13-057

2. Agenda 1.Introduction 2.Research Problem 3.Objectives 4.Methodology 5.Users & Benefits 6.Expected Outputs 7.References 8.Work Break Down Structure

3. Background What is Braille? Braille is a series of raised dots that can be read with the fingers by people who are blind or whose eyesight is not sufficient for reading printed material. Teachers, parents, and others who are not visually impaired ordinarily read Braille with their eyes. Braille is not a language. Rather, it is a code by which languages such as English or Sinhala may be written and read.

4. Background cont...  In this system targets General exams in Sri Lanka like Ordinary Level(O\L) or Advance Level(A\L)  Basically exam paper creator only creates English version of the exam paper  If he needs to create Braille version of that paper he need external person who expert in Braille language  That conversion process is time consuming and unsecure  Using this system exam paper creator can convert standard exam paper to Braille paper by not getting any help of external person

5. Background cont... And also who answer the Braille version exam paper write Braille version answer That Braille answer cant read examiner because he haven't any knowledge about Braille language Then he must convert it into standard text(English) with the help of external Braille experts That is time consuming approach Using this system can be converted Braille version answer sheet into standard text document in English All above operations based on image processing technique call Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and template matching

6. Existing systems and differentiate our project Existing Systems and Web applications – These are the windows applications RTFC braille converter 7.04 Mitranetra Braille Converter Dolphin Computer Access : EasyConverter (multi language) – These are the web base Braille converters Libbraille : http://libbraille.org/translator.php BrailleTranslator.org : http://www.brailletranslator.org/ Braille Translator v1.41 : http://www.mathsisfun.com/braille-translation.html

7. Existing systems and differentiate our project cont... All those are not support scanned document convert to Braille document and the opposite conversion By using Optical Character recognition(OCR) techniques.

8. Research Problems We are tying to prevent below issues and wastages in the human interaction procedures Involving so many people is time and money wasting. Examiner himself can translates the exam paper into Braille version without interfering any 3 rd party Privacy is the main prior in examinations. By involving so many people, exam information can be leak out

9. Research Objectives Common Objectives – To provide a perfect solution for how to convert Braille words into computer readable format and Standard English words into Braille words – To implement Offline Character Recognition System for Braille character recognition – To reduce the wasting time of typing Braille version of the exam paper or any other document – To provide the facility of editing the converted document after the conversion by providing an editor – To recognize words in the scanned document by achieving accuracy level between 80% - 90%

10. Methodologies

11. Scan the Braille answer sheet Enhance the scanned answer sheet requisite for OCR Match the Braille characters with the Data base characters Conclude the English words commensurate with the Braille words Get the English answer sheet Convert the Braille answer sheet to the English

12. Create the Braille Examination paper Load the English Exam paper Enhance the scanned paper requisite for OCR Recognition the characters Match the characters with the Data base and identify the Braille characters Conclude the Braille words commensurate with the English words Get the Braille exam paper

13. Applicable techniques Binarization Image enhancing techniques Filtering the characters Character segmentation Word segmentation

14. Overall System Diagram Exam paper creator Create exam paper e-Exam paper Print exam paper Scan text paper or Braille paper Exam paper’s Scanned Image Braille Answer Sheets Scanned Image Converter Generated Braille exam paper Generated text Answer sheet Text to braille converterBraille to Text converter Printed exam paper (hard copy) Braille Answer Sheet Blind candidate

15. System Architecture Scanned Braille Answer Sheet Filtering Scanned Exam Paper Enhance Image Character Segmentation English Character Database Braille Character Database Create Braille Exam Paper Create English Answer Sheet Post Configuration English Answer Sheet Braille Exam paper Features Extraction

16. Users profile Target audience 1.Exam paper creator 2.Examiner 3.Blind students How it affect to users : After creating regular exam paper it convert in to Braille version of exam paper and it gives to candidate who sitting exam And that person write answers by using braille characters That answer sheet convert in to readable standard document

17. Tools and Technologies Image Enhancement Adaptive Binarization Filtering Character Segmentation Histogram profile Character Recognition Template Matching Post Processing Noisy channel Model Character based segmentation model Bigram Language model

18. Tools and Technologies cont... OpenCV : using Aforge.NET 2.2.4 wrapper to visual c# (Open Source Computer Vision Library) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 : Visual C# (Integrated development environment) MSSQL 2008 : ( data base )

19. Benefits of using Braille Converter Easy to examine answer sheets –Because Braille answer sheet also converts into normal English paper, its easy to correct answer papers Easy to make papers –Both normal vision and blind vision papers can create by participation of limited people

20. Expected Results When converting a Braille document into word document, it should be accurate at least 80%-90% When converting a word document into braille document, it should be accurate at least 80%-90% Less time consuming and minimize operational cost

21. References [ 1] Universal Braille Writer. [Online] Available : http://www.dellchallenge.org/projects/universal-braille-writer [2] Transforming Braille. [Online] Available : http://www.daisy.org/projects/transforming-braille [3] The University of Edinburgh. [Online] Available : http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/services/help- consultancy/accessibility/creating-materials/braille-documents [4] Braille Without Borders. [Online] Available : http://www.braillewithoutborders.org/ENGLISH/index_bwb.html [5] Braille-Go-Round. [Online] Available: https://sites.google.com/site/brailleproject/

22. Work Brake Down Structure TaskAllocated Member 1 Detection of Braille characters in the above edited image. A character of English alphabet is mapped corresponding to each code. And convert it into a printable English answer sheet version. IT 10 1589 82 Ranasinghe A.D.E.S 2 Analysis the characters in the Braille answer sheet. And make the dots (Braille characters) in the image. IT 10 1904 94 Chamalika Hewawitharana G.H.P 3 Extraction of characters in the examination paper and it converts to an Image. And make the characters in the image useful to reorganize format. IT 10 2284 18 Ranaweera R.K.I.M 4 Detection of English characters in the above edited image. And convert it into a printable Braille paper version. IT 10 1840 04 Gunawardhana R.D

23. Group Members 1.IT 10 1589 82Ranasinghe A.D.E.S 2.IT 10 2284 18Ranaweera R.K.I.M 3.IT 10 1904 94Chamalika Hewawitharana G.H.P 4.IT 10 1840 04Gunawardhana R.D Group Title – Braille Converter For Exams Group Number - 13-057