[Electronics-Talk] reading old kwb files from BrailleNote

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I think your approach is correct.  Open them as electronic braille files.  I
think I had to do that for kwb files a long time ago, and there were some
special characters but the braille text was easily readable.  
Then I guess you'd have to feed it through something to translate them to
text.  NFBTrans used to be free and would probably do the trick, but I'm not
sure it's still around.
Tracy


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From: Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of
Ashley Bramlett via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2023 7:42 PM
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Cc: Ashley Bramlett <bookwormahb at earthlink.net>
Subject: [Electronics-Talk] reading old kwb files from BrailleNote

Hi all,

This is a bit off topic but I had a big tech question in order to access old
files!

 

What computer program can open and hopefully read kwb files?

I have access to a Windows pc and laptop which includes both Openbook and
Duxbury software.

 

Older Braille notes had their own file format and I had a Braille Note and
saved many of its files.

These were called KWB files which were keyword braille files.

These files were written in contracted braille. I would guess I'd open them
in electronic braille but then need to convert them to some kind of text
format to read them on screen with a screen reader.

 

I have the old Braille Note but its almost dead and takes a long time to
even scroll down to files and most of the cells have broken pins.

 

I just now want a way to access files though. Thanks for any help!

 

Ashley



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