Conversion of Gujarati Text into Braille

              Conversion of Gujarati Text into Braille

   

  When we consider The Gujarati text into Braille conversion. As very less literature is found in Gujarati language for visually impaired people, if the research is carried out in this field, it will increase the amount of literature for them.

      Gujarati is also one of In Indian languages, there is no notion of upper case and lower case. Sometimes, two or more characters are combined to form compound character. There are huge character sets (vowels and consonants) in the Indian Languages also.

      There are over 50 million people worldwide who use Gujarati for writing and speaking. So they want to braille system for visually impaired people who practiced to use Gujarati language.

A character is conjunct, if two half consonants are joined. So, characters in Gujarati can be the combination of consonant, vowels and diacritics. Gujarati .Gujarati language has many characters as shown in fig 1.

                                              Fig .1 Gujarati Characters and digits

     Braille is a tactile writing system used by blind and visually impaired. It is traditionally written in embossed form. They can write Braille with the original slate and stylus or type it on Braille writer.

Frenchman Louis Braille developed his code for French alphabet as an improvement on night writing. He published his system, which subsequently included musical notation at the age 15. Braille is named after it create. Standard Braille is an approach to create documents which could be read through touch. A cell consists of six dots arranged in the form of a rectangular grid of two dots horizontally (row) and three dots vertically (column).The layout of Braille cell is shown in fig. 2

                                       
                                                        Fig. 2 A Braille cell with 6 dots

 A printed sheet of Braille normally contains upwards of twenty five rows of text with forty cells in each row. The physical dimensions of a standard Braille sheet are approximately 11 inches by 11 inches.
                The dimension of a Braille cell, as printed on an embosser is shown in fig. 3

                                                  Fig. 3 A Braille cell dimension (in millimetres)


When we consider the conversion of Sinhala text in to braille as very less literature found from Sinhala language. so we have to research about convert in to braille from sinhala language.