Tyflos-Reader - A Document Reader for the Visually Impaired

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End date: 2008

Description: This project deals with the development of a document Reader for visually impaired/blind. It is a wearable system (dark glasses with a camera, portable computer, microphone, ear speaker, software, etc) that captures images from a certain document (book, newspaper) and interactively, with the user "reads" the document, converts it into natural language text, then into speech for the user through an ear speaker.

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Last updated: 07/04/2008