Re: Translating Braille to Text
- From: "Bruce Toews" <ketchupboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:31:44 -0700
Back-translating from braille is a far-from-exact science. A computer
has no way of ensuring 100% accuracy. For example, the string bum#bee
could be either bum255 or bumblebee, the computer has absolutely no way
of knowing which. Forward translation is much more feasibly precise.
Bruce
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:02:05 -0400, "Dan Beaver" <dbeaver888@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Yes, NFBTRANS will do that but be careful because it has a significant
> number of back translation errors. At least in the .brf files I have
> used
> it on.
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> From: "Nolan Crabb" <ncrabb@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:00 PM
> Subject: RE: Translating Braille to Text
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>
> > Won't NFBtrans do that? It's free, last time I heard.
> >
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