[blindkid] about a book "Slightly Above Time"

Richard Holloway rholloway at gopbc.org
Tue Nov 15 03:33:03 UTC 2011


If you can get it as a text file, text files are certainly readable on a BrailleNote. 

If you scan it and want it to become text, you need to run it through an OCR program to convert it into text. The quality of text conversions varies based on several factors, mainly the quality of the source documents (a typical book should be fine) and the quality of the actual scans. The biggest problem with bound books is getting a clear scan all the way to the gutter side of the text. If the book is  not terribly expensive, you might need to break the binding if it won't get flat enough or you can even physically remove the pages. (When the gutter of the book won't lay flat the text is scanned out of focus and won't convert very well.)

Obviously a text file is WAY simpler!

You might also post the actual book name here just in case someone has it or hears of it being somewhere. (There's nothing to loose by asking, right?)

Good luck!





On Nov 14, 2011, at 11:15 AM, hpscheffer at aol.com wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to get a book in braille for my daughter, it is new and Bookshare does not have it, anyone know what the easiest way would be to get it in braille. I'm wondering if I can find it as a download to then put on a thumb drive and see if she can read it on her Braille Note, but it would not be in braille format so I don't know if it would work. I could also put it on the Victor reader, but I prefer her to read it. I could also scan it, but it has 310 pages so that would be very time consuming. Any experiences from anyone how to get this quickly?
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> Thank you
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> Heidi
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