Currency Detector Application for Visually impaired (The Blind Assist)

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Volume 3, Issue 3 (2022)

Published Online

May-June 2022

Pages

33-36

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Abstract: We present an application for recognizing currency bills using computer vision techniques that can run on a low-end smartphone. The application runs on the device without the need for any remote server. Visually Impaired are those people who have vision impairment or vision loss. Problems faced by visually impaired in performing daily activities are in great number. They also face a lot of difficulties in monetary transactions. They are unable to recognize the paper currencies due to similarity of paper texture and size between different categories. This money detector app helps visually impaired patients to recognize and detect money. Using this application blind people can speak and give command to open camera of a smartphone and camera will click picture of the note and tell the user by speech how much the money note is. This Android project uses speech to text conversion to convert the command given by the blind patient. Speech Recognition is a technology that allows users to provide spoken input into the systems. This android application uses text to speech concept to read the value of note to the user and then it converts the text value into speech. This application can help visually impaired to recognize money. In this application blind people can speak and give command to open camera and camera will click the picture of note and tell the user by speech medium how much rupee note it is. By using it, anyone can easily detect fraud currency using their android mobile cell. In the country the problem is in acute situation and people want easier way to deal with it.