Real-time character reading system for Marathi script using Raspberry Pi

Development of real-time recognition systems for character recognition for Indian scripts is a challenging task. This paper presents a novel real time character reading system for Marathi script. The system is developed using Raspberry Pi and OpenCV Python. The reading system is composed of two modules, namely, image acquisition module and character recognition module. The image acquisition module consists of the camera and the character recognition module does the preprocessing, recognizes the characters and converts them into speech. In this paper, Marathi printed characters without any modifiers are acquired using camera and applied to the character recognition module. The recognition rate achieved is 92% using template matching.