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A huge amount of information is communicated to people through text. Many of that is not obtainable for fully blind or near-blind people. It is possible to make a large portion of this information accessible by designing a portable device to assist the blind. This device would be able to scan text and present it in braille code. | A huge amount of information is communicated to people through text. Many of that is not obtainable for fully blind or near-blind people. It is possible to make a large portion of this information accessible by designing a portable device to assist the blind. This device would be able to scan text and present it in braille code. The goal is to make it easy for the blind to read books, hand written texts and text contained within images. A hypothetical concept for this device will be designed for fully blind people. | ||
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At first literature will be studied to learn about the current technological aids for the blind and for the current state of OCR (optical character recognition) and refresh-able braille displays. Then contact with a institute, involved in research for helping the blind, will be sought to gain feedback on the device. This feedback will then be carefully incorporated into the device to ensure its practical use. | |||
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0LAUK0: Robots Everywhere Group 2
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Project definition
A huge amount of information is communicated to people through text. Many of that is not obtainable for fully blind or near-blind people. It is possible to make a large portion of this information accessible by designing a portable device to assist the blind. This device would be able to scan text and present it in braille code. The goal is to make it easy for the blind to read books, hand written texts and text contained within images. A hypothetical concept for this device will be designed for fully blind people.
Approach
At first literature will be studied to learn about the current technological aids for the blind and for the current state of OCR (optical character recognition) and refresh-able braille displays. Then contact with a institute, involved in research for helping the blind, will be sought to gain feedback on the device. This feedback will then be carefully incorporated into the device to ensure its practical use.