An App Based Online Kannada To English Transliteration System For Mobile Camera Images

Abstract

A common problem faced by any non-native people and travelers from other states visiting Karnataka is the inability to read the Kannada text in public places like street boards, bus names and signboards. So, the transliteration from Kannada to English is essential in such cases. Transliteration is the process which will convert the script of one language to other language without altering the meaning. This paper focuses on different approaches to solve the problems of reading Kannada text using machine learning techniques. We have used Tesseract android software development kit(SDK) for Optical character Recognition. LIBINDIC Soundex Algorithm is used for the transliteration purpose. Main aim of the paper is to build an app to capture the image, process it and also to have its transliterated output