Development of shopping assistant using extraction of text images for visually impaired

This paper proffers an application in order to expedite easy and innate shopping for the blind person in a super market. The pictures of the objects held are captured by the inbuilt camera in the mobile. The image is processed and consequently text localisation and extraction is done by which the label of the product is identified. This is converted to speech and given as voice output to the user. A bill calculator is also consolidated with this application which on receiving the voice/speech input from the user, calculates the total bill amount of the purchase. This bill amount is then sent as voice output to the user.