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