OCR

In today’s world of globalized trade and e­commerce, product labeling is becoming increasingly important. It ensures product traceability throughout the supply chain, provides information and protection, and influences consumer confidence. Traditional methods of checking and reading labels are based on manual control or the use of simple barcode scanners, which often prove ineffective in conditions of increasing data processing volumes.

This paper describes an Android mobile phone application designed for blind or visually impaired people. The main aim of this system is to create an automatic text- reading assistant using the hardware capabilities of a mobile phone associated with innovative algorithms. The Android platform was chosen for people who already have a mobile phone and do not need to  buy new hardware. Four key technologies are required: camera capture, text detection, speech synthesis, and voice detection.