[duxuser] Re: Reverse translation software
- From: David Holladay <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 06:20:07 -0400
I will second George's assessment.
There are many stories of braille scanning systems, but the only actual
product I know of is OBR.
Just as Duxbury does not sell embossers (at least right now they are not on
the price list), Duxbury does not sell braille scanning systems.
But Duxbury's DBT can translate 130 languages into braille.
For almost all of these languages, there is also a braille-to-print
translator as well in DBT. So if you do obtain a braille file (from OBR or
another source), you can get inkprint.
Here is a trick that works with our current software. If you have an
inkprint DBT file, you can export to "htm file". (Do not select "legacy
sgml, html".)
Now open Word, and open the htm file you created with DBT. You see a full
file with the correct script (Roman letters, Arabic, Korean, Russian,
Hindi, etc. are correct in Word).
Now save the file in Word, watching the file type carefully. Select native
doc instead of htm in Word, and you have a full Word file in whatever
script you are using.
I am working with Peter Sullivan so the production of inkprint Word files
from DBT will be a bit easier than this in the next major version.
You mention Nemeth. As you can imagine, going from math braille to math
inkprint is more complicated.
I suspect that when there is support for a Nemeth braille to print system
in DBT, it will come in the form of a front end to software like Scientific
Notebook, which can print math.
I hope we have answered your questions.
-- David Holladay
Duxbury Systems
At 04:46 AM 5/31/2012, you wrote:
I believe what you may have seen is ?OBR? ? ?Optical Braille Recognition?.
See link below. I suspect your Texas guys may be dealers.
<http://www.neovision.cz/prods/obr/>http://www.neovision.cz/prods/obr/
George.
From: duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:duxuser-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Holly Guinan
Sent: 30 May 2012 23:51
To: duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [duxuser] Reverse translation software
A couple of years ago I saw a software demonstrated at CSUN conference
which purported to take hardcopy braille, place it on scanner
bed, software took image of dots, translated dot patterns into print
text. The version I saw demo'ed was specifically for Nemeth, but it
recognized the difference between Nemeth and literary. I forget the name
of the software, the company that made it, and everything else except
the fact that the team came out of Texas. Anybody know what I'm talking
about? Does Dux produce anything that takes hardcopy braille on paper and
reverse translates it? Thanks in advance, -Holly
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