1. Two worlds together
Braille and DAISY Flemish Library for Audio Books and Braille Books
Innovation, convergence and exchange Odt2braille
The Flemish Library for Audio Books and Braille Books The odt2braille extension enables users to
(Luisterpunt) for people with print disabilities wants to ●
convert text from Writer into Braille BRF files
increase the size and quality of their collection through ●
link a regular style for paragraphs, headers, pages
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collaborative innovation with production centers, and characters to a Braille-specific style
developers and readers ●
automatically split up the ODF based text file into
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convergence between Braille and DAISY production multiple volumes (Braille books are much bigger than
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the use of formats that can be exchanged with other regular books)
libraries ●
automatically add volume information at the
beginning of every volume
To achieve these goals the library and production ●
create a table of content with Braille pagenumbers
centers Blindenzorg Licht en Liefde and Progebraille ●
convert tables and graphs into Braille-specific
Helen Keller recently initiated a new production representations of structured data
method with OpenOffice.org Writer and the open-
source extensions odt2braille and odt2daisy.
The new method enables
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more efficient production by using the same text file
from Writer as a source for both Braille and DAISY
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the use of 'styles' in modern text formatting tools for http://odt2braille.sourceforge.net/
creating accessible documents
Odt2daisy
DAISY or Digital Accessible Information System is an
Printed book Electronic file international standard for digital talking books
from publisher from publisher
The odt2daisy extension enables users to
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convert text from Writer into DAISY with synthetic
Scan with Copy/paste or speech and highlighting of on-screen text
text recognition conversion tool ●
convert text from Writer into a DAISY source-file for
production of various accessible materials such as
studiobooks with human voice, large-print books and
ODF text file in OpenOffice.org Writer other formats
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exchange DAISY versions of our books with the
Netherlands
odt2braille BRAILLE
http://odt2daisy.sourceforge.net/
odt2daisy DAISY
Acknowledgments
Odt2braille and odt2daisy have been carried out as part of
Exchange with the ÆGIS project (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Ground-
future: necessity for daisy2odt work, Infrastructure, Standards). The library wishes to thank
Dutch library Bert Frees, Christophe Strobbe and Jan Engelen from the
DOCARCH KULeuven group, our colleagues from the
production centers Blindenzorg Licht en Liefde and
Progebraille Helen Keller and our readers for their
continuous efforts.
For more information please contact Dries Blanchaert (ICT)
e-mail: Dries.Blanchaert@luisterpuntbibliotheek.be
phone: +32 (0)2 423 04 16
visit us at www.luisterpuntbibliotheek.be