Braille font recognition

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Ok so here it is.

For my final year project, I am thinking of writing a software which will essentially convert Braille to regular text (and then move on to convert that to audio, irrelevant at the moment).

I plan to use easily available hardware like a scanner to import documents written by blind people onto the computer.

The scenario is this --> the scanned document will be in image format (or maybe pdf). How do I convert this image to text ? I am reading up on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Intelligent Character Recognition (ICR) to convert the bitmap into text. But I probably will have to write the entire algorithm itself.

So, is there any alternate way to do this ? I am not asking for coding help just yet ; just looking at my options.

Posted 4-Aug-10 6:23am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2010-08-04T06:32:00

hmmm... final project... and in the entire time at school you didn't once used google and got your way around with that? ;-P

OCR is simply recognizing predefined signs and specially with a neural network you can train it in any way you want. Just setup the rules for recognizing a single dot combination and then let it learn for a while so it becomes better and better.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/Machine-Vision/OCR-Braille-reading/m-p/544662[^]

Good luck!