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.
— 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.