Author : Salah C. and A. Ranjith Ram

Braille is a tactic writing system that has been used by blind. This paper presents a brief survey of character recognition and transliteration works on Braille system so as to design a system that will transliterate Malayalam scanned books and magazines in to Braille. The proposed system deals with a printed Malayalam text to Braille transliteration system which includes a Malayalam optical character recognition system (OCR) and Malayalam to Braille mapping.

Keywords: Braille system, Bharathi Braille script, Malayalam Braille,Optical character Recognition, Support vector machine

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.4 (Aug-2015)