Divya Nayan-a personal reading machine for visually impaired

Last Updated31/07/2021

DivyaNayan is a personal reading machine for visually impaired developed by CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIO), Chandigarh where any printed or digital document can be accessed in the form of speech output.
The device is available to the visually impaired individuals and institutions through an online registration and booking portal https://divyanayan.csio.res.in/registration.php on its website.
The device is useful for the targeted disability group for accessing printed and digital information.

Users can place the device over the document to be read and manually scan it.
The reading device uses language dependent optical character recognition to convert the image into text and a text to speech converter, further converts the text into audio.
Audio files are stored in the machine and can be listened back.
The device is handheld, standalone, portable, completely wireless and IoT enabled.
It is currently available in Hindi, English, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, and Punjabi but is further compatible for other Indian and foreign languages.
It has interfaces such as USB, Bluetooth, Wifi, LAN, Headphone etc.
Page orientation detection and correction
It is capable of reading Multi-Column document.
It has inbuilt rechargeable lithium ion battery which can last up to three hours.
It is equipped with 32 GB internal storage, wireless communication feature (i.e Bluetooth and Wi-Fi) and weighs less than half a gram.

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is an autonomous body established in 1942.
It is located in New Delhi.
CSIR known for its cutting edge R&D knowledge base in diverse S&T areas is a contemporary R&D organization.
CSIR has a dynamic network of 37 national laboratories, 39 outreach centres, 3 Innovation Complexes, and five units with a pan-India presence.
CSIR is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and it operates as an autonomous body through the Societies Registration Act, 1860.
CSIR covers a wide spectrum of streams – from radio and space physics, oceanography, geophysics, chemicals, drugs, genomics, biotechnology and nanotechnology to mining, aeronautics, instrumentation, environmental engineering and information technology.