Barcode based Product Label Reading

In this generation printed text appears everywhere. So because of this the blind people always take the help of others to buy some product. Thus blind people need some assistance to read text information of the product. Assistive technologies are being developed for visually impaired people in order to live confidently. This system proposes a barcode reader-based assistive text reading framework which processes the captured barcode and obtains its details to help blind persons read text labels and product packaging from hand-held objects in their daily lives. This system is framed into three stages. Firstly, the barcode reader scans the barcode from the product. Secondly the barcode number and the name of the product is displayed in the LCD. Finally, Speech output – the product name is pronounced through the headphones .This system can be used to insist the blind people in their daily life. The entire application is based on Raspberry Pi.