Virtual Reader to Assist VIP (Visually Impaired People)

Blindness restricts a person’s mobility and interactions to known boundaries. Blind person are diffident in entering unknown environment where they are not familiar with surroundings and obstacles. Not only movements they are also hesitant and doubtful when literary (either printed or handwritten) matters are in concerns and documents are not available in Brail language. This limits their ability to perform various jobs and activities. This is the concern of 40 million people all over the world out of which 18 million are in India only. Another 250 million have some kind of visual impairment like age related disorder, glaucoma and diabetes, so they also need support in textual matters. Keeping their concern in mind authors have targeted their work to provide these VIP’s (Visually Impaired People) with a self-functioning support system which allow them understand and act more confidently in their inscribed contexts without any human assistance. Authors have aimed to make some advancements to support VIP’s (Visually Impaired People) this concern. We targeted to build a plug and play accessory for this concern. The accessory will offer a technical eyesight or technical reader to these VIP’s (Visually Impaired People). It can be used as an independent device or can be placed at the specific position on the cane and work as a virtual reader for them. Accessory/Extension comprises the camera that will be activated to click the object or any reading material (even in the form of image). Camera is connected with a mobile phone. Mobile phone is equipped with python supported application that can read out text written in the image. The text will be communicated to the ear piece associated with the mobile device carrying by the VIP’s (Visually Impaired People).