INTEGRATED AUGMENTED REALITY SIGN BOARD MOBILE TRANSLATION SYSTEM

Malaysia continuously receives students, businessmen and tourists coming from all parts of the world. More often than not, these have little or no knowledge of the Malay language. Moreover, these will often miss important messages that will be conveyed through sign boards, information boards and any other written method because they are not versed in Malay language. Hence, an app has been proposed and developed to combine a highly accurate Optical Character Recognition engine, Tesseract and little of Augmented Reality concepts to provide Malay translation to foreigners. This app will prove to be useful because it will provide Malay translation with almost no user input, requiring only that these focus their devices’ cameras to the sign board’s text they intent to translate.