CHARACTER

RECOGNITION
AND ITS
BENEFITS FOR
THE
DYSLEXICS
dys lex ia
A learning disorder advantage marked by the unique ability to
recognize and comprehend complex visual patterns
Ankit Kumar Panda 16MF10005
Arkajit Naskar 13CH10008
Tangella Suraj Varma 17CH10048
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
OCR (OPTICAL
WHAT IS DYSLEXIA?
CHARACTER
01
RECOGNITION)
WHAT IS OCR, ITS TYPES
AND ITS BENEFITS 02
GO DIGITAL
HOW DOES DIGITAL
TEXT HELP THE
DYSLEXIC?
03
CONCLUSION
TYING UP KNOTS
04
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INTODUCTIO
N
WHAT IS
DYSLEXIA?
INTRODUCTION
Learning to read is one of the key outcomes for early
education and children who have reading difficulties
often enter a downward spiral of low educational WHAT DO
YOU SEE?
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attainment and poor employment prospects with DSUBIIAI

negative consequences for adult well-being. 

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects

the skills involved in accurate and fluent word
reading and spelling.

Dyslexia is related to early problems in oral language

development, with persisting problems in the
development of speech-sound (phonological) skills
being a particularly important obstacle to learning to
decode print.
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WHAT IS OCR?
Optical character recognition or optical character
reader (OCR) is the electronic or mechanical conversion
of images of typed, handwritten, or printed text into
machine-encoded text, whether from a scanned
document, a photo of a document, a scene-photo or from
subtitle text superimposed on an image. OCR is a field of
research in pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and
computer vision. 
OCR Technology became popular in the early 1990s
while attempting to digitize historic newspapers. Since
then the technology has undergone several
improvements. Nowadays solutions deliver near to
perfect OCR accuracy. Advanced methods like
Zonal OCR are used to automate complex
document-based workflows.
OCR is often used as a “hidden” technology,
powering many well-known systems and services
in our daily life. Less known, but as important, use
cases for OCR technology include data entry
automation, indexing documents for search
engines, automatic number plate recognition, as
well as assisting blind and visually impaired
persons.
The three basic principles are already well known
by scientists – integrity, purposefulness, and
adaptability (IPA). These principles constitute the
core of OCR allowing it to replicate natural or
human-like recognition.
 TYPES OF OCR
Character Recognition:
There are two basic types of core OCR algorithm, which may produce a ranked list of candidate characters

PATTERN FEATUR
MATCHING
Matrix matching involves
comparing an image to a ES
 Feature extraction
decomposes glyphs into
stored glyph on a pixel-by- “features” like lines, closed
pixel basis; it is also known loops, line direction, and line
as “pattern matching”. This intersections. Feature
relies on the input glyph Extraction serves two
being correctly isolated from purposes; one is to extract
the rest of the image, and on properties that can identify a
the stored glyph being in a character uniquely. The
similar font and at the same second is to extract
scale. This technique works properties that can
best with typewritten text and differentiate between similar
does not work well when new characters.
fonts are encountered
BENEFITS OF OCR FOR
DYSLEXIC
OCR makes it possible to make changes to the digital text.

What can be done with the digital text depends on which reading software you’re using. Common
options include:

Aa Bb Cc

Highlighting Speaking words Changing the Placing digital

words, sentences, aloud using colors and the size “bookmarks” that
or paragraphs text-to-speech of text enable users to
move around
within the text
HOW DIGITAL TEXT
HELPS FOR DYSLEXIC
READERS
Digital text is especially helpful for struggling
readers, including those who have learning
differences such as dyslexia. The digital format
makes it possible for readers to see words on a
screen and hear them read aloud at the same time.
This provides more ways to engage with the
information. It can also help kids develop
independent reading skills.

OCR “looks” at the photo (this is why its name

begins with “optical”) and recognizes the shapes of
the different letters, numbers, and other characters. It
uses character recognition to convert the photo of the
document into a text file. In many cases, the digital
version will maintain the “look and feel” of the
original.
 Sample RESULTS

INPUT

RESULTS OF OUR OCR

OUTPUT
CONCLUSION

OCR technology has proven immensely useful in

digitizing historic newspapers and texts that have
now been converted into fully searchable formats
and had made accessing those earlier texts easier
and faster and is proven to be a helpful tool for
readers with
Dyslexia.