TEXT TO BRAILLE

CONVERSION USING
MATLAB
Presented by
Ms. Anusha Jagannath (410713431002)

Guide : Dr. Sowmya, PhD

M.E, EMBEDDED SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGIES
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING
DHANALAKSHMI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, CHENNAI-601301

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AGENDA
OBJECTIVE
FEATURE
LITERATURE SURVEY
METHODOLOGY
ALGORITHM
SOFTWARE USED
RESULTS
ERROR ANALYSIS
CONCLUSION
FUTURE SCOPE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
REFERENCES

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OBJECTIVE
Text to Braille conversion.
Output saved in rich braille-text format.

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ABOUT BRAILLE
Creator: Frenchman Louis Braille.
Tactile writing system.
Small rectangular blocks called cells.
Varied dot- arrangement pattern.

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BRAILLE ALPHABET

Figure 1: English Alphabet in Braille

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NUMBERS IN BRAILLE

Figure 2: Numbers in Braille

Figure 3: Hashed Alphabet as Numbers

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SPECIAL CHARACTERS

Figure 4: Special Characters in Braille

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FEATURE
MATLAB
Look Up Table
Unique identity for small and capital letters.
Unique identity for numbers and special characters.
Output in Text Format.
Print in Embossing Paper.
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LITERATURE SURVEY

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LITERATURE SURVEY

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LITERATURE SURVEY

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METHODOLOGY
Description
Input: Document format.
Special Look Up Table.
Output: Document format (.txt). No restriction

in input value.

Other methods: Image format(.jpeg, .jpg),

limited number of input.

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METHODOLOGY

Block Diagram

Figure 4: Text to Braille Conversion Block Diagram

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ALGORITHM
Look Up Table // List
File read operation //Mention the input file
File write operation initialization //Mention the output file
{
Switch (text_input)
{
Define various cases for the letters, numbers and
special characters;
File write in output file //To store the braille converted
output
}
End
}
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SOFTWARE USED
MATLAB: Matrix Laboratory
High-level language
Interactive environment
Numerical computation, visualization, and programming.
Signal, image and video processing, control systems etc.
Version: R2013a

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RESULTS

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 Letter d and the sterling character d.

Optimization: Code execution time proportional
to code length.
The decimal point and period.

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A novel feature introducing Look Up Table; provides

rich text-format braille output and helps further
reading, analysis and documentation of Braille scripts.

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 New line reading.

Space recognition.
Tamil into Braille.

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