Empowering the visually impaired with a mobile application for document reader
In a rapidly evolving digital age, accessibility to information is a fundamental right that should extend to everyone, including individuals with visual impairments, who often encounter significant challenges in accessing text content during their daily lives. This project introduces a user-friendly...
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| Format: | Final Year Project / Dissertation / Thesis |
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2024
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6649/1/fyp_CS_2024_LJS.pdf http://eprints.utar.edu.my/6649/ |
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| Summary: | In a rapidly evolving digital age, accessibility to information is a fundamental right that should extend to everyone, including individuals with visual impairments, who often encounter significant challenges in accessing text content during their daily lives. This project introduces a user-friendly and cross-platform mobile application designed to empower visually impaired individuals by providing them with a versatile tool for accessing and comprehending printed or written content, ultimately aiming to enhance their accessibility to the surrounding environment and promote their integration into various aspects of life.
Leveraging the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) technologies, the application seamlessly converts images containing text into speech output. OCR technology extracts text from images, while TTS technology converts the extracted text into speech. This innovative combination eliminates barriers to information, enabling visually impaired individuals to engage with their surrounding environment more actively. By addressing the limitations of previous studies and focusing on inclusivity, this project aspires to make a meaningful impact on the lives of visually impaired individuals, offering them independence and a sense of integration into a visually rich world. This project aims to cater to the diverse needs of visually impaired individuals, utilizing from the insights gained from the review of other works in the field.
Overall, through innovative technology, this application strives to bridge the information gap and enrich the daily lives of individuals with visual impairments, thereby fostering a greater sense of independence, confidence, and involvement to their surrounding environment and the broader world. |
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