AbleAI is a fully offline, multimodal AI assistant built for ARM-based devices.
It includes three independent modules:

1. OCR Reader – Reads text aloud from captured images
2. Object Detection Assistant – Detects objects in real time using YOLOv8
3. Voice Assistant – Accepts voice commands and performs OCR or detection

This project showcases how powerful AI can run locally, privately, and efficiently without cloud APIs or GPUs.

• Captures images using the camera
• Preprocesses them for better OCR accuracy
• Extracts text using Tesseract OCR
• Speaks the detected text via offline TTS

• Runs YOLOv8n and YOLOv8m models on CPU
• Fully offline object detection
• Announces detected objects
• Designed for ARM efficiency

• Offline speech-to-text
• Can respond to commands like:
  • “Read this text”
  • “Describe what you see”
• Integrates OCR, object detection, and TTS
• Works offline end-to-end

AbleAI/
│
├── smart_assistant_module1/        # OCR Reader
│   ├── app.py
│   ├── ocr_reader.py
│   ├── speaker.py
│   └── requirements.txt
│
├── smart_assistant_module2/        # Object Detector
│   ├── app_object_detect.py
│   ├── detector.py
│   ├── speaker.py
│   ├── yolov8n.pt
│   ├── yolov8m.pt
│   └── requirements.txt
│
├── smart_assistant_module3/        # Voice Assistant
│   ├── app_voice_assistant.py
│   ├── speech_to_text.py
│   ├── speaker.py
│   └── requirements.txt
│
└── README.md

• Python 3.8+
• ARM-based device (recommended)
• Tesseract OCR installed
• Webcam or device camera

cd smart_assistant_module1
pip install -r requirements.txt

python app.py --mode camera

python app.py --mode file --file test.jpg

cd smart_assistant_module2
pip install -r requirements.txt

python app_object_detect.py

YOLO models included:

• yolov8n.pt — fast and lightweight
• yolov8m.pt — more accurate

cd smart_assistant_module3
pip install -r requirements.txt

python app_voice_assistant.py

• Python
• OpenCV
• YOLOv8 (Ultralytics)
• Tesseract OCR
• pyttsx3 offline TTS
• SpeechRecognition
• NumPy
• Pillow

• On-device LLM for summarization
• Multilingual OCR + translation
• Android APK version
• Real-time continuous reading mode
• Memory-based conversation for assistant

• Ultralytics YOLOv8
• Tesseract OCR
• OpenCV community
• Python open-source ecosystem