For many blind users educational choices are made based on which material can be accessed and which cannot. These people are dependent solely on Braille books & audio recordings provided by NGOs. The presented work will provide visually impaired people, an opportunity to have an audio material of their own choice of any printed material. The framework consists of two parts. One is Optical Character Recognition (OCR) which includes operations like grayscaling, thresholding, filtering, thinning, segmentation, cropping, etc. on a character in the image and other part is text to speech conversion using Microsoft's API which will convert the text into speech (audio).

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