Client’s Challenge
People with visual impairments or vision loss face a variety of daily challenges. A particularly significant issue is the difficulty of reviewing bills and other important documents. Visually impaired individuals cannot read the contents of a bill with their eyes, making it very difficult to verify and manage their financial transactions. Furthermore, standard bills often contain small text and a lot of information, requiring special assistance to review them.
There was a strong demand for a way for visually impaired individuals to easily check the contents of their bills. Traditional methods, such as manually asking others for help or using simple text-to-speech functions, were not accurate or convenient enough. The client was seeking an easy-to-use technological solution that would allow visually impaired people to seamlessly verify the contents of their bills on their own.
The Problem: Enhancing Independent Verification and Convenience
The most critical challenge was to enable visually impaired individuals to independently verify bill information. The client needed a tool that could easily read a bill and vocalize its contents. Traditional text-to-speech functions often failed to properly recognize the complex data and formats within bills, leading to incomplete information extraction.
The client wanted to implement a solution that used AI technology to not only accurately read a bill but also vocalize its contents in an easy-to-understand format. The goal was to help visually impaired individuals review their bills at their own pace and live more independent lives.
Partnering with MOHA Software
The client found MOHA Software, a company that provides advanced AI-powered bill reading systems. MOHA has extensive experience in developing solutions using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and machine learning, with a specific focus on assistive technology for the visually impaired. Confident that MOHA’s technology would be both effective and user-friendly for people with visual impairments, the client chose MOHA as their project partner.
To fully meet the client’s needs, MOHA provided advanced AI technology to vocalize bills, allowing visually impaired individuals to efficiently understand the information. The reliability and high accuracy of the solution gave the client peace of mind.
MOHA Software’s Proposal and Solution
MOHA proposed a custom bill-reading software tailored to the client’s needs. This software uses a smartphone’s camera to capture an image of a bill and leverages AI technology to provide the following functions:
- OCR (Optical Character Recognition): This function converts the captured image of the bill into text, extracting the information.
- Machine Learning Reformatting: The extracted information is organized and reformatted into a clear, easy-to-understand layout for visually impaired users.
- Text-to-Speech: The reformatted text data is read aloud, allowing visually impaired individuals to hear and verify the bill’s contents.
This system was designed to help visually impaired individuals independently review bills and understand information related to payments and transactions.
Solution Details
MOHA’s bill-reading software processes bill information through the following steps:
- Image Capture: The user takes a picture of the bill with their smartphone camera.
- OCR Application: The software extracts text from the captured image and converts it into data.
- Machine Learning Reformatting: The extracted information is reorganized into a more comprehensible format for visually impaired users. For instance, items like dates, amounts, and billing addresses are reordered for clarity.
- Text-to-Speech: The organized text is read aloud, allowing the user to understand the bill’s contents audibly.
This process enables people with visual impairments to easily check their bill information with a smartphone, making daily financial management simpler and more independent.
Benefits Provided
With this bill-reading software, the client gained the following advantages:
- Independent Bill Review: Visually impaired individuals can review and understand their bills on their own without relying on others.
- Accurate Information Extraction: The use of AI-powered OCR and machine learning ensures that bill information is accurately extracted and organized into a format that is easy for visually impaired users to understand.
- Ease of Use: Users can read bill information simply by using their smartphone camera, making the tool highly convenient and user-friendly.
- Audible Verification: Because the text is read aloud, visually impaired users can comprehend the contents of the bill through sound.
Result
Through the “AI Bill-Reading Software for the Visually Impaired” case study, we are delighted to have solved our client’s challenge and provided a more accessible environment for many people. This success story demonstrates how MOHA Software’s AI technology can contribute to society.
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