Aiding the visually impaired: Developing an efficient braille printer

Anubhav Apurva; Palash Thakur; Anupam Misra

doi:10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126160

Aiding the visually impaired: Developing an efficient braille printer

Anubhav Apurva, Palash Thakur, Anupam Misra

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Abstract

With the large number of partially or completely visually impaired persons in society, their integration as productive, educated and capable members of society is hampered heavily by a pervasively high level of braille illiteracy. This problem is further compounded by the fact that braille printers are prohibitively expensive - generally starting from two thousand US dollars, beyond the reach of the common man. Over the period of a year, the authors have tried to develop a Braille printer which attempts to overcome the problems inherent in commercial printers. The purpose of this paper, therefore, is to introduce two prototypes -The first with an emphasis of costeffectiveness, and the second prototype, which is more experimental and aims to eliminate several demerits of Braille printing. The first prototype has been constructed at a cost significantly less than the existing commercial Braille printers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	2128-2133
Number of pages	6
Volume	2017-January
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509063673
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126160
Publication status	Published - 30-11-2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017 - Manipal, Mangalore, India Duration: 13-09-2017 → 16-09-2017

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Conference	2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017
Country/Territory	India
City	Manipal, Mangalore
Period	13-09-17 → 16-09-17

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Computer Networks and Communications
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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Apurva, A, Thakur, P & Misra, A 2017, Aiding the visually impaired: Developing an efficient braille printer. in 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017. vol. 2017-January, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 2128-2133, 2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017, Manipal, Mangalore, India, 13-09-17. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICACCI.2017.8126160

Aiding the visually impaired : Developing an efficient braille printer. / Apurva, Anubhav; Thakur, Palash; Misra, Anupam.

2017 International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics, ICACCI 2017. Vol. 2017-January Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 2128-2133.

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