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Smart Reader App for Blind People ”in Arabic”

The blind people and the visually impaired are part of this community and they have to live a normal life and adapt to this community. We, as Information Technology students, find the responsibility to serve them. We search in must of the systems that build for blind people most of them are for guiding or for detecting objects around by specific devices for example a stick or a glasses it is consider more expensive and not available for all blind people. They need a service that available for them any time and any where and become free for them. We found that the detecting and recognize text’s by blind’s is one of the most difficult tasks that they perform because they are unable to identify text or read what is its, and there almost no any systems specified for blind people that provide a service to read text in Arabic for them, therefore they often have to accompany a person helps them to read for them or asking people around. We propose developing an application that helps the blind and visually impaired to read texts anytime and anywhere. We will be develop an app by the Android Studio platform in Java programming language along with Python programming language connected to use them together by Chaquopy tool. This application will perform two main tasks. First, it will recognize Arabic and English texts with OCR through the camera, when the image contain Arabic text the android studio will not recognize any thing because Arabic languages not support into it, so what will happen is the android app will use the Python code by the Chaquopy which is the easiest way to use Python in Android app, so the same image will be used in Python and by ArabicOcr library the image will be analysed to produce a file text contain the text recognized from the image then it send the file back to android app. and for the image with English texts there is English text detection provided in android studio by vision library which is from Google, the English text’s can be in various styles and sizes. Second in the app it will take the text recognized either from Arabic or English and convert it to clearly voice by using TextToSpeech library in Android Studio. So as we say it will be developed through the Android Studio platform in Java programming language along Python programming language connected together by Chaquopy tool, The main target of this application is that will be easy to use and without complications.

Information

  • Students: Abrar Yosef AlHarbi - Haneen Suliman AlOraini - Namarq Yahya AlWashmi
  • Supervisor: Dr. Ola Abdlgney Omer
  • Research Specialization: Mobile applications
  • Upload Date: 20/02/2020