Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology
is very helpful for visually impaired or illiterate persons who are
unable to read text documents but need to reach the content of
the text documents. In this paper, a camera-based assistive device
is used that can be applied for visually impaired or illiterate
people to understand Bangla text documents by listening to the
contents of the Bangla text images. This work mainly involves the
extraction of the Bangla text from the Bangla text image and
converts the extracted text to speech. This work has been fulfilled
with Raspberry Pi and a camera module by applying the
concepts of the Tesseract OCR engine, the Open Source
Computer Vision, and the Google Speech Application Program
Interface. This work can help people speaking Bangla language
who are unable to read or have a significant loss of visual sight.