Divyanayan Divyanayan, an initiative of CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh, is a reading machine for visually impaired or illiterate person where any printed or digital document can be accessed in the form of speech output. The device uses a contact line scanner for acquiring the image of a printed document. User manually scans the document by placing the device on printed document without knowing the direction of text flow, moving the device over the document to be read. It uses optical character recognition technique to convert the image into text and a text to speech converter further converts the text into audio. Audio files are organized in the machine and can be listened back. The device is standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled. It can analyze a multicolumn document to provide seamless reading and is capable of page, text, and word level navigation while reading. Currently the device supports Hindi and English but can be further configured to other Indian and foreign languages. It is equipped with user inter-faces such as internal speaker, rechargeable battery, USB, headphones, SD card, Wi-Fi and bluetooth. Features Wireless and Portable: The device is standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled. Multifunctional: Read printed, e-books, e-news, recording and reading speech. Multilanguage: Supports 7 languages (Hindi, English, Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil) Online Processing: Document: Batch Processing Organisation Document Storage: Sync document Specifications Parameters Reading Machine Scanning Method Contact Conversion Time (A4) 10-60 Seconds Scanning Speed Manually by the user, 10-15 seconds to scan one A4 size printed page Scan Width Upto 230 mm Document Scanning Direction Top-Down, Bottom-Up, Left-Right, Right-Left Storage Internal memory of 8 GB and 32 GB (~30K pages) external memory for document storage Number of Keys 5 (D-Pad)+12(Key-Pad) OCR Engine Open source Supported Languages Hindi, English, Bengali, Punjabi, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil Speech Engine Nuance vocalizer expressive Connectivity LAN, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth 4.1 Battery 2600 mAh rechargeable lithium ion battery, Internal battery/USB chargeable Battery Run Time Scan and read upto 60 A4 pages Dimensions (WxDxH) 250 x 50 x 41 mm Weight 350 g Supported e-document (USB) Audio (mp3, wav), Video (mp4, avi), Digital Document (txt, doc, docx, pdf), Image (jpg, jpeg, bmp, pnm, png, tiff, jfif), Ebook (epub), HTML Divyanayan Mobile App Divyanayan App is used to extract text from any image / PDF to read the content. Divyanayan Android App is developed to use computation power of smartphone for extraction of text from any image or PDF file and read out the content using Android Accessibility feature or third-party TTS. As a day-to-day solution, the app has simple user interface suitable for visually impaired people. Features Android application with image access feature from camera / gallery option Stored PDF files can be read Supports English and 10 Indian languages with possibility of adding more languages What’s New Bug fixes Updated PDF navigation One time language selection Download Mobile App Click Here to Download Mobile App (for Android) How to order Divya Nayan Write to retailsale@celindia.co.in / +91-7000705724 Source: Divya nayan Website