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Phone Reader Project

Phone Reader Project. Presenter: Marilyn Bihina Supervisor: James Connan. Overview of the presentation. Intro - Statement of the problem Description of the Phone Reader project Design of the system Implementation Demo Tests Future work Questions. Statement of the problem.

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Phone Reader Project

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  1. Phone Reader Project Presenter: Marilyn Bihina Supervisor: James Connan

  2. Overview of the presentation • Intro - Statement of the problem • Description of the Phone Reader project • Design of the system • Implementation • Demo • Tests • Future work • Questions

  3. Statement of the problem • Reading and understanding a text can be difficult for: • Non-native speakers • Dyslectics and blind people • Illiterates • The Phone Reader project aims to help users read and understand a text from a picture.

  4. Description of the Phone Reader project • What is a phone reader? Photo of text converted to speech through a phone.

  5. Design of the system

  6. Implementation

  7. Implementation • Pre-processing methods used with Imagemagick: • Crop • Despeckle • Grayscale • Threshold • Deskew • Unsharp

  8. Demo • Video 1 • Video 2

  9. Tests 1 2 4 3

  10. Tests with good picture quality Original Image Processed Image

  11. Tesseract results from a good picture

  12. Tests with bad picture

  13. Tesseract results from not processed bad image

  14. Bad quality processed image

  15. Tesseract results from bad processed image

  16. Future work • Display special characters(é, ï, ç) in translated text • Include a spell checker to improve the final text • Allow more languages to be recognized and translated

  17. Conclusion • Main challenge: take a good picture!!!!

  18. Questions ???????????? ???????????? ????????????

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