Abstract- Bengali Braille to Text Translator

Abstract on a software project- Bengali Braille to Text Translator.

Created in 4th year of Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering (BSSE) course at Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka (IIT, DU).

1. Bengali Braille



Institute of Information Technology
Institute of Information Technology
Bengali Braille to Text Translation
Course Code: SE-801










Submitted by
Minhas Kamal
Roll: BSSE-0509
Student of BSSE 8th Semester
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka


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



24
th
July 2016

2. Abstract
Braille is a specialized writing system
embossed paper are used as tactile alphabet
system was adapted from a military method of
popular. Now, almost every major language in the world has its own braille format.

Figure 1: A Braille Cell with 6 dots
There are some very well-known
Braille, Braille Master, and Supernova
computation time and accuracy.
than its counterpart. And so, both
Recognition. To the best of my knowledge, there is also no tool available for
translation. Moreover, very few researches
So, in this project I shall create a tool
take scanned image of Bengali Braille writing and convert it to text.




Submitted by

Minhas Kamal
Student of BSSE 8th Semester
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka

Braille is a specialized writing system for visually impaired people, where raised dots on
as tactile alphabet. For example- Fig. 1 represents Bengali
system was adapted from a military method of night time message passing, and quickly
almost every major language in the world has its own braille format.

Figure 1: A Braille Cell with 6 dots Representing- ‘আ’

known commercially available text-to-braille translators
and Supernova. These tools demonstrate high performance both
and accuracy. But braille-to-text translators face much more
And so, both effectiveness and precision suffer during Bra
To the best of my knowledge, there is also no tool available for
few researches have been carried out in this field.
create a tool for Bengali Braille Character Recognition
take scanned image of Bengali Braille writing and convert it to text.
Student of BSSE 8th Semester
Institute of Information Technology


Supervised by


Mohammad Shoyaib
Associate Professor
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhak
where raised dots on
represents Bengali ‘আ’.The
and quickly became
almost every major language in the world has its own braille format.
braille translators such as- Win
high performance both in
text translators face much more complications
effectiveness and precision suffer during Braille Character
To the best of my knowledge, there is also no tool available for Bengali Braille

Braille Character Recognition. The tool will
Supervised by
Mohammad Shoyaib
Associate Professor
Institute of Information Technology
University of Dhaka