Inspiration
Our solution is to create this amazing project that will help blind people to be independent and reading any books (not just books) by thier own.
What it does
recognize text in image captured using smart phones camera and convert it into audio speech
How we built it
Used CV2 to capture the image with the text. Used tesseract engine to recognize text in the image and convert it into string variable. Used Google Text-to-Speech library to transfer text into audio speech then play it.
Challenges we ran into
finding the right technology.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
reaching good accuracy.
What we learned
learned to handle tesseract and Google Text-to-Speech library
What's next for Audio Book
cooperate google glasses to put the software on it.

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