This project was influenced by one of my friends who was too lazy to read books for his exams and once said there should be a machine which can read his books aloud and he can listen effortlessly although this project can even be used for optically disabled persons who can’t read a book and all books are not available to them in Braille or speech edition.

​So, I used here Raspberry pi model B+ and camera module supported by Pi because the camera module for Arduino wasn’t good enough to scan books or click snaps clear enough to distinguish text for Optical Character Recognition. An actuated hand was used to flip pages of book as soon as camera clicks a clear picture of page presently opened. After clicking image it is saved in the memory of Pi which can be used for digitalizing book too. This image is processed and converted into text file by OCR (here, I used tesseract which is open source OCR engine supported by Google). After converting it to text file, I converted it to speech format which can be read aloud by speakers connected to Pi.