yes Michael,
that's correct,
I agree with you.
you cannot do braille to text translation using liblouis.
Regards,
Tolga.
On 05/01/2017, Michael Whapples <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,For a description of the software, to download it and links to
To answer your questions:
1. LibLouis can do both forward translation (print text to Braille) and
also back translation (Braille to text). However I thing the translation
from Braille to text is less developed and may not work for some Braille
codes.
2. I suspect from this question LibLouis is not the software you want it
to be. LibLouis is primarily a software library, functions which other
software can use to include Braille translation in their software.
However LibLouis does have some command line tools, but these do not do
any formatting and only convert the text characters into Braille. I
think my suggestion would be to look at http://liblouis.org where you
will find download links and documentation for LibLouis and also a
couple of links to some software packages which use LibLouis and may be
more like what you want. In particular you may want to look at
BrailleBlaster from APH which is aimed at doing Braille document
translations and possibly could be seen as an alternative to Duxbury.
3. LibLouis obtained from http://liblouis.org is free of charge, however
the license does not prevent other people redistributing it and charging
a fee, possibly to include additional things like support or enhancements.
4. At http://liblouis.org there is a link to the official LibLouis
documentation.
5. LibLouis is open source so you are free to access the source code and
modify it (either yourself or get someone else to do the modification)
as you need. If looking at the functionality, Duxbury is a solution for
translating documents into Braille and does things like formatting as
well as the translation. LibLouis only translates the characters and
does not do any formatting. There are software tools, such as
BrailleBlaster, ViewPlus Tiger Software Suite and LibLouisUTDML which
add this formatting functionality and would be more comparable to DBT.
6. Probably using other software tools would be more likely what you
would want for this task as LibLouis will not do the line wrapping, etc
on its own.
Michael Whapples
On 04/01/2017 18:33, Saaqib Mahmuud (Redacted sender saaqib1978 for
DMARC) wrote:
Hi Liblouis community?
I am Saaqib Mahmood, a 38-year-old visually impaired person with an
MPhil in mathematics and now working as an assistant professor of
mathematics at a mainstream college.
I have a few questions.
1. Is Liblouis software program with the help of which we can type in
braille? Or is it a program that only translates the normal print text
into braille?
2. How to download, install, and use Liblouis?
3. Is Liblouis totally free of charge? Or does one have to incur some
financial cost?
4. Is there any PDF, BRF, or audio / video tutorial on Liblouis?
5. What is the difference between the functionality and use of DBT and
Liblous, except for the fact that the former is commercial?
6. Can we create, edit, or open BRF files with the help of Liblouis?
Regards.
Saaqib Mahmood
Phone: +92-334-541-7958 (mobile + WhatsApp + Skype + Viber)
Skype ID: saaqib.mahmood
Email: saaqib1978@xxxxxxxxxxx
