21-06-2011, 02:22 PM
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1.1 Abstract
Tourism plays an important role in modern world. It contributes a lot to the national revenue. Tourists face a perpetual problem of understanding the local languages wherever they go. And in Europe all the sign boards are written in local languages like in Germany they are written in German etc.
Our project is intended to help tourist understand what has been written on sign boards. The project uses the primary gadget every tourist carries that is his mobile phone. A photo taken from the mobile phone is needed to be sent to the server and server does the character recognition, language translation and sends the customer the translated text via SMS.
Our project mainly is divided into 4 modules.
1. Request Acceptance
2. Character Recognition
3. Language Translation
4. Response Delivery
In Request Acceptance module the request from the customer is acknowledged i.e. the image is received from the client’s mobile phone. In Character Recognition module the characters are extracted from the given image. In Language Translation the extracted string is converted into English language. In Response Delivery the text is sent back to the client’s mobile via SMS.
We have successfully implemented algorithms for character segmentation, character recognition, and feature extraction. We have successfully created application for connectivity between PC server and Mobile Client.
Note: We have basically translated a German language into English
1.2 Advantages & Applications
The fore most advantage of our project is that customer need not buy any additional gadgets to avail this service. It can be readily used using a phone with a built-in camera.
The advantages of our project are as follows:
1. Cost Effective.
2. No additional gadget necessary.
3. Very fast.
4. Easy to use.
We found various applications where our project best suits in. They are as follows:
1. At Public Transport places like Railway Station and Bus stations where all the details are provided on the hoardings.
2. At Museums where people can know more about the art pieces.
3. As a single user system the whole project can be transferred to a phone and one can have a mobile Language Emulator.
