CONVERSION OF TEXT IMAGE DOCUMENT IN SOUTHERN INDIAN LANGUAGES INTO BRAILLE FOR VISUALLY CHALLENGED PEOPLE

Speech and text is the significant intermediate for human communication. The Braille encoding system represents textual documents in a readable format for the visually challenged person. This paper projects a model to assist visually impaired or blind person in reading the text present on southern Indian Language text image by converting the text into corresponding Braille script. The experimentation of the algorithms was carried out on southern Indian Language text image dataset. Experimental results show that the projected method has a good performance on converting the extracted text regions in an image to corresponding Braille Script.