2. By: Hadley Scholtz Supervisor: Mehrdad Ghaziasgar Co – supervisor: James Connan Assisted by: Ibraheem Frieslaar

3.  Introduction  User Requirements  Requirements Analysis  Assumptions  Project Plan

4.  Problem ◦ Users with impaired vision or users that are illiterate will have problems reading certain segments of text. ◦ Text in foreign languages are difficult to read, pronounce etc.

5.  Phone Reader 1.0 by Hadi and Hossein Shayesteh ◦ An excellent novel idea by James Connan ◦ User would use Android phone to take picture of text ◦ Picture was sent to Optical Character Recognition (OCR) server ◦ Image converted to text and possibly translated. ◦ Text read to user using text-to-speech (TTS)  Features ◦ Could process image, if well-aligned ◦ Entire image was processed and converted to text ◦ Audio was played immediately after processing Previous Solution

6.  Phone Reader 2.0 ◦ Optimized OCR ◦ Select segments from image ◦ Manually control when audio is played ◦ Repeated audio playback ◦ Enhanced user interface

7. Android Phone Text

13. Android Phone OCR Server Tomorrow OCRTTS

15.  Process one image at a time  Will run on Android platform

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