📷🗣️ Text Reader & Voice Assistant

A real-time, camera-powered text reader with multilingual OCR and voice playback. Bring text on paper or screens to life using your webcam! Supports English 🇬🇧, Bengali 🇧🇩, Hindi 🇮🇳, and Tamil 🇮🇳.

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🚀 Features

• 🎥 Live Camera Preview with enhanced GUI overlay
• 👁️‍🗨️ Instant OCR from a smart capture area
• 🔊 Text-to-Speech for extracted text
• 🌐 Multiple Languages: English, Bengali, Hindi, Tamil (press 1–4)
• ⌨️ Hotkey Controls:
  1️⃣ 2️⃣ 3️⃣ 4️⃣ — Change language
  ⬜ SPACE — Capture & Read Text
  🔁 R — Repeat Last Text
  ❌ Q — Quit Application
• 🪞 Mirror Mode for easy point-and-capture interface

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🏁 Getting Started

1️⃣ Prerequisites

• Python 3.7+
• Tesseract OCR installed and added to your system PATH

2️⃣ Installation

-git clone https://github.com/rivu-intel45/luna-reader.git -pip install -r requirements.txt

3️⃣ Tesseract Setup

• 🪟 Windows: Download installer and complete setup
• 🐧 Linux: sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-ben tesseract-ocr-hin tesseract-ocr-tam
• 🍏 macOS: brew install tesseract For full language support, make sure ben.traineddata, hin.traineddata, and tam.traineddata are present in your tessdata folder.

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⚡ Usage

Update the Tesseract path in your code if needed: pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"

Then start the notebook or script and point your camera at the text inside the green capture box.

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🎛️ Controls

Key	Action	Emoji
1	Switch to English	🇬🇧
2	Switch to Bengali	🇧🇩
3	Switch to Hindi	🇮🇳
4	Switch to Tamil	🇮🇳
SPACE	Capture & Read Text	⬜️
R	Repeat Last Text	🔁
Q	Quit Application	❌

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📦 Dependencies

• opencv-python
• pytesseract
• pillow
• gtts
• pygame
• numpy

Install everything with: -pip install -r requirements.txt

💡 Troubleshooting

• ⚠️ Tesseract not found? Check the tesseract_cmd path and PATH configuration.
• 🔇 No audio? Verify system volume, default output device, and pygame installation.
• 📋 No text detected? Improve lighting, adjust focus, and keep text fully inside the capture box.

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🙌 Contributing

Pull requests are welcome!
For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to improve or add.