Brailly

Inspiration

Our inspiration is to make education, information, and daily living more accessible for those with visual impairments. We also wanted to make it easier for educators and volunteers to understand Braille symbols and teach it using interactive methods.

What it does

Brailly takes any text captured in an image and converts it into Braille. Think about snapping a photo of a book page, a street sign, or a menu - our app translates that text into Braille instantly and displays it using vibration enabled buttons and through audio. As the app translates text to Braille, it also displays the corresponding Braille characters on the screen, making it easier for educators and volunteers to understand and explain how standard text is transformed into Braille symbols.

How we built it

We used Flutter for a cross-platform experience, used Google's Vision API for precise image-to-text recognition, and made algorithms for accurate text-to-Braille translation.

Challenges we ran into

Using Google's API was complex, creating the text-to-Braille algorithm was tough, and finding an easy-to-use layout was tricky.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of making something for people with visual impairments. Getting the hang of Google's API, building our own text-to-Braille algorithm, and designing an app that's easy for everyone to use