Exploiting the Daisy Format for Automated, Single-Source Braille Publishing

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  • Lars Ballieu Christensen
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This paper presents the background and status of the projects and discusses opportunities and challenges of the AutoBraille/NorBraille approach of using Daisy talking books as the foundation for creating well-formatted, multi-volume Braille books ready for embossing. Whereas the current R&D projects are limited to relatively simple document structures, preliminary research suggests that it will be possible to automatically process even complicated math and science titles.

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تاریخ انتشار 2010