
Personal reading scanner machine for visually impaired
Nearly 4.7 million people in India are blind or visually impaired, this physical disability keeps them away from many things one of which is, reading. To make them self-dependant when it comes to reading Central Scientific Instruments Organisation, (CSIO) Chandigarh has developed a scanner based reading device called ‘Divyanayan.
It is a reading machine for visually impaired or illiterate person where any printed or digital document can be accessed in the form of speech output. The device uses a contact line scanner for acquiring the image of a printed document. “Earlier we were thinking to make it a camera based device but then it would have been difficult for a visually impaired person to click a perfect picture, so we thought of a scanner based device which is more viable” said Dr R...