Interaction with a Mobile Reader for the Visually Impaired

While reading devices for the visually impaired have been available for many years, they are often expensive and difficult to use. In an effort to prototype a device comprised of inexpensive components, we present a highly interactive method for processing document images. The voice user interface (VUI), document image segmentation and framing, and targeted image registration methods of a mobile reading device are presented. Initial experimental results on a set of newspaper pages are also presented.