vizassist

What is this application

An android app that assists blind people in text reading

The purpose

To increase accessibility.

• Blind people are facing many visual challenges everyday, includes:
  • Identification
  • Description
  • Reading
  • Other

How it work (client-side)

• First page

  • Camera capture button
  • Image gallery button (upload from local)
  • Test and image placeholder

• Result page

  • Image captured or selected
  • Result and error message

• What happen in between

  • Image data accessing and packaging
  • OCR server query with image data
  • UI update with server query result

How it work (server-side)

• Utilize an IaaS service model in Google Compute Engine
• build an docker container with Tomcat image to run our server-side application in GCE Virtual Machine