Authors have proposed the new device of automatic document reader for visually blind people, which is developed on the Raspberry Pi Platform. The primary objective of this paper is to provide the smart reader using raspberry pi for visually challenged people. It is an innovative, efficient and real-time cost-beneficial technique that enables the user to hear the contents of text images instead of reading through them. An approach combines the concept of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and

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... xt to Speech Synthesizer (TTS) in Raspberry pi. Text-to-Speech is a technique that scans and reads English alphabets and numbers that are in the image using the OCR technique and changing it to voices. This device is introducing the integration of a complete Text Read-out system. This device consists of two modules, the image processing module, and a voice processing module. The device is developed for the conversion of the printed document into a text file by using Raspberry Pi which uses Python programming. Experimental results have shown the efficiency of the model.