Albert Gunadhi, Daniel Ivan, Diana Lestariningsih, Widya Andyardja, Yuliati
Visually handicapped person apparently can't learn through some phisycal experiences or observations that required sight, in that case they have to get the information by direct access of another sensory perceptions such as touch or hear. Even in their financial management, visually handicapped persons are rely on somebody who has a normal vision whom they really trusted to organize their money. Therefore the writer brought up an idea to make a device whose its function is to identify a value of a money with audio output. It is expected that help visually handicapped person when have a transaction using cash effectively, quicker and also to avoid miscalculation. To identify a value of a money, the writer using numerical character as parameter. This device using image processing and optical character recognition as the method and also uses some of the important components such as windows tablet and webcam. Before it could recognize anything, the image have to have image pre-processing and some of segmentation to continue in the training character. After training character has done, next it will be continue with recognition process. When a character has been recognized, there will be a loop audio that mention a value of a money. © 2006-2016 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).
Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya, Jl. Kalijudan Surabaya, Indonesia