Medicine Identification Application for Visually Impaired People
Angel Negi, Aishwarya Bhure, Dhanashree V. Patil, Akshita Maskara, Madhuri A. Bhalekar · Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) · 2021
Reading is a fundamental part of our lives. Information and text is presenteverywhere in magazines, in newspapers, in receipts, in letters, bank documents etc. But textpresent on medicine and its cover is something which is important and needs to becrosschecked every time we buy it. While buying medicines, people tend to make sure thatthey are buying a correct one by cross checking the medicine name, expiry date,manufacturing date and the MRP so that they do not get fooled. It is one of the easiest tasksto perform for normal people as they can read. But what about the people with visualimpairment? How will they be able to get their medicine details?The proposed application tries to imitate this job for them and helps them better understandtheir medicines. The application scans the medicine content side and uses the advancedtechnologies like Tesseract optical character recognition (OCR), Computer Vision, Text toSpeech technology to extract the required information and makes it available to the user inthe form of audio. The application helps visually impaired people to independently carry outthis task without the hindrance of a third person