[brailleblaster] Re: Basic functions of the GUI
- From: François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx>
- To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:11:00 -0400
Hi John. Here is a little status update on my work so far. With the
interactive BB I can create, read, edit and save UTDML files, import almost
any kind of file that has text in it including doc, docx, odf, pdf, rtf,
txt, xls, xlsx, epub, then edit and save the content as UTDML. We can
display the content being edited in the daisy area as translated ascii or
braille in the braille area. We can do basic embossing of the translated
text.
The fancy functions are not there yet for editing or setting up the
environment but it's a start, there was nothing really working last week!
All we had was a message saying that the function was not yet available
every time we clicked on a menu item. There were lots of little things to
fix in the code as it seemed like it was never really used.
To be continued...
Regards,
F.
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 6:44 AM, François Ouellette <braille@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> John: I will use the current specifications found on the BB website. It is
> still marked as draft, hence my question. Tika seems like a mature
> interface that extracts text from almost any known file type that contains
> text, including PDF. It does that in a breeze. I only use it to extract
> text from non-Daisy files since BB does that, and BB also produces the XML
> formatted output. And Tika is open source so it is extensible if we need
> to.
>
> Thanks.
>
> François
>
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:14 AM, John J. Boyer <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Hi Francois,
>>
>> There is a specifications page on the BrailleBlaster website. It is
>> called something like bb_spec4.html
>>
>> Incidentally, your posts seem to be sent from an address that isn't
>> subscribed to the list, since they come to me for approval.
>>
>> tika sounds great. Will it produce a good xml file from a Word document.
>> We need xml, not plain text. Will it produce xml from rtf? How about
>> pdf? The last one may be a stinker.
>>
>> I'm looking forward to seeing the wordprocessor classes you have been
>> working on. When you are satisfied with them, send them as attachments
>> to the list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:09:10PM -0400, Francois wrote:
>> > Hi, I know I asked before but is there a specification document of what
>> the
>> > file menu items are expected to do? For instance, Open, Save, Save As,
>> and
>> > Import. I experimented with Apache Tika and it is a very advanced
>> interface
>> > that can extract text from almost any kind of file that has text,
>> including
>> > compressed archives and epub. It could be easily extended to support
>> Daisy
>> > and other container formats.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > François.
>>
>> --
>> John J. Boyer, Executive Director
>> GodTouches Digital Ministry, Inc.
>> http://www.godtouches.org
>> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
>> Peace, Love, Service
>>
>>
>>
>
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