OCR for Medical Data Processing

Abstract

The mechanism implemented in this device is to help visually impaired people and also to convert hardcopy hospital data into softcopy. The modified softcopy file will be stored as a backup in Dropbox. In this project, a device developed by a web converts image text to speech. The basic structure of the system is to capture an image, extract only the interest region (i.e., the image region which has text), and convert that text to speech. The device is implemented with the help of a system and a web camera. It locates the parts of images which contain the text and eliminates the background by various image pre-processing techniques from the captured image. Two tools are required to convert the captured image (which contains text only).