Deepan-ks / Earing-Aided-Shades

Earing Aided shade which consists of earphone and software prototype in order to help the visually impaired community to read the documents, alternate for a scribe, and also identify the objects nearby.

Earing Aided Shades

This will help the visually impaired people for Reading(Hearing) text documents in user desired languages ,answering for text doucments and detecting the objects around the user.

Reading mode

It uses the OCR and tesseract engine for the extracting the text in document or text in image.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

pip install pytesseract
pip install pillow

Tesseract engine

Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine with open-source code, this is the most popular and qualitative OCR-library. Download and install manually

Transalte

Transalte the contents in the user desired language by using google transalte

 pip install gtts  

Scribe mode

It will acts as SCRIBE for the visually imapaired people by reading the questions and able them to write the answers through Speech to text

 pip install speech_recognition

Object-Detection using deep learning with opencv and python

pip install opencv-contib-python
pip install numpy

YOLO V3 (You Only Look Once)

Yolo object dection with voice output Download the yolov3 weights from here.

FFmpeg(windows)

download and install if any doubt refer this