Wearable Reading Wrist Device for Visually Impaired People

Visually impaired people occasionally experience difficulty accessing written materials. Blind persons are currently assisted in reading by the Braille system, which is a code system in which dots represent alphabetic letters. There are only so many books that a visually impaired person can read because not all books are published in Braille. Thus, it is imperative to build a reading device that makes eyes-free operation (reading) more manageable. The current work proposes a wearable reader that captures on-the-spot images of printed text from a book using a tiny, high-resolution camera. The printed text graphics are converted to a digital representation of the text using a Raspberry Pi microcontroller.. If the user strays from the current text line, the device’s built-in vibration motors will assist in helping them orient themselves toward the direction of reading. The text on the computer sounds like speech to the user. With the help of this finger-worn gadget, blind or visually impaired people can access a wide range of educational resources for their further education.