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A portable device for the translation of braille to text

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This paper presents the development of a portable device for the translation of embossed Braille to text. The device optically scans a Braille page and outputs the equivalent text output in real time, thus acting as a written communications gateway between sighted and vision impaired persons.

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                        Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
                        October 2006
                        316 pages
                        ISBN:1595932909
                        DOI:10.1145/1168987
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                        1. braille
                        2. optical braille recognition
                        3. portable machine translation

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