Software Project Proposal- Bengali Braille to Text Translation Presented in 4th year of Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering (BSSE) course at Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka (IIT, DU).

1. Project Proposal
Bengali Braille to Text Translation
Course: SE 801- Project
Date: 14-Aug-2016

2. Presented by
Minhas Kamal
Student of BSSE 8th Semester
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka

3. Supervised by
Dr. Mohammad Shoyaib
Associate Professor
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka

4. Contents
● Motivation
● Background
● Objective
● Methodology
● Scope
● Assumptions
● Deliverables
● Timescale
● Resources
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5. What is Braille?
Braille is a specialized writing system for visually
impaired people, where raised dots on embossed
paper are used as tactile alphabet.
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6. Motivation
● Help The Sightless
● Digitally Interpret Analog Data
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7. Background
● Get every bit of information in digital form.
● Very few researches have been performed over
Bengali Braille to text translation.
● No single open source tool available for this
translation purpose.
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8. Objective
Bengali Braille to Text Translator
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Braille Text

9. Methodology
1. Enhance Input Image
2. Detect Dots
3. Recognize Patterns
4. Map Patterns to Characters
5. Write Output to A Text File
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10. Scope
1. Input image format- *.png or *.jpg
2. One-sided embossment
3. Character range- Bengali alphabets (অ-আ, ক-ঁ),
their diacritic and abbreviated forms, numbers (০-
৯), and common punctuation marks.
4. Output- a text file
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11. Assumptions
Scanned image-
1. will not have any rotation or skew
2. background will be white
3. Random and Banding noise will be at minimum,
and no Fixed Pattern noise will exist
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12. Deliverables
● A Software Installation File
● User Manual
● Source Code
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13. Timescale 10

14. Resources
Hardware Requirement-
● A Personal Computer
● A Scanner
Software Requirement-
● Java Runtime Environment
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15. THANKS