A book reading magnifier for low vision persons on smartphones and tablets

Book reading magnifier for low vision people was implemented as an application of smartphones or electronic tablets. Pages of books are captured by camera and the images of texts are magnified by the proposed devices. To read texts in the sequence of sentences in a book, the software recognizes and analyzes structures of book pages. To recognize lines of book texts, histograms of black and white is used. Using the devices, users enabled to move the magnified screens of book pages smoothly along a text line direction of reading sequences.