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HOME / WORK / Saransh — Multilingual Book ScannerEdge AI · accessibility · 2023
— CASE 09 / EDGE AI · ACCESSIBILITY · INGENIUM 2ND

SARANSH —
BOOK → AUDIO.

Point it at a printed page; it scans, summarizes, and reads the gist aloud — in multiple Indian languages, fully self-contained on a Raspberry Pi. 2nd of 200+ teams at Ingenium.

2NDIngenium · 200+ teams
OCR→TTSScan → summary → audio
MULTIIndian languages
PISelf-contained · portable

— THE BUILD

TURN A
PRINTED PAGE
INTO A
SPOKEN
SUMMARY.

Students and visually-impaired readers need an accessible way to get the gist of physical books, and most tools are either expensive or skip regional Indian languages. Saransh runs the whole pipeline on a Raspberry Pi: a camera captures the page, OpenCV handles preprocessing and page detection, and Tesseract OCR extracts the text.

A Transformers NLP stage condenses the text into a concise summary, then text-to-speech reads it aloud — with the TTS engine chosen per language after quality varied across fonts and Indian languages. The device is self-contained and portable.

RASPBERRY PITESSERACT OCRTRANSFORMERSNLPTTSOPENCVPYTHON
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LET’S
BUILD.