期刊名称：International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science
印刷版ISSN：2319-7242
出版年度：2015
卷号：4
期号：3
页码：11072-11075
出版社：IJECS
摘要：Nowadays printed text appears everywhere like product names, restaurant menus, instructions on bottles, signed boards etc. Thusblind people need some assistance to read this text .This paper presents a camera-based product information reader to help blind persons toread information of the products. Camera acts as main vision in detecting the label image of the product then image is processed internallyand separates label from image by using MATLAB and finally identifies the product name and identified product information is pronouncedthrough the optical character recognition (OCR).The OCR is used to convert the text from text regions and then converted to voice output
关键词：blind people; optical character recognition (OCR); text area localization;text extraction
