[nabs-l] RoboBraille

[Humberto Avila]

Hello Arielle  and others,

Not only does roboBraille service convert pdf documents that are
inaccessible into accessible word documents, it does a plethora and a
miriate of other things. You need to visit their site:
http://www.robobraille.org/online. From this site, you will find instruction
on how to convert many other types of files. There are 4 steps that are very
simple.  
But as I said, you can upload an inaccessible .pdf image, and even a .jpg,
.png, .tif image of text, and you can tell it to convert to E.G. a word
document, a text document, even an mp3 file with synthesized speech to name
a few. And something that is much more awesome, you can also convert any
kind of document, accessible or inaccessible, into a .brf Braille document
for use with your note taker! I know, it is so cool! Again you can find out
how to do it by going to www.robobraille.org/online. 

Take care,
Humberto

-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
Of Arielle Silverman
Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 2:34 PM
To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nabs-l] RoboBraille

Hi all,
I just wanted to thank Vejas for telling us about the RoboBraille resource.
I just used it to convert three scanned PDF articles I had into accessible
Word documents. It did a very good job, I had each article within 5 min and
the OCR quality was very good. This could be an excellent money-saving
resource for blind college students who don't have the funds to purchase
Kurzweil or Open Book. Plus if you want to scan something yourself but don't
have OCR software, you can scan it, print to PDF and then send the PDF to
RoboBraille to have it converted to Word.
For those of you who missed Vejas's post: To convert a PDF document to Word
simply send it as an email attachment to convert at robobraille.org and put doc
in the subject line.
Best,
Arielle

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