Optical Braille Recognition

Read Braille with your scanner

If You Don't Read Braille,
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Parents of blind children, teachers, people in workplaces where braille is used, can now read braille easily, electronically.

O.B.R. is optical character recognition software that reads Braille. Place a Braille copy on a Hewlett Packard scanner. Scan the Braille document using the O.B.R. program. O.B.R. will then convert the Braille copy back to text or save the Braille document to disk as a formatted Braille file.

Old copies of Braille books and documents in libraries that are not on disk or in print any longer can be scanned and reprinted using a modern Braille Embosser or saved for future use. O.B.R. reads most copies of Braille, so if the master of a book is lost, and all that may be available is a Thermoform copy, O.B.R. will read it. The copy made with O.B.R. will be accurate. When O.B.R. is used with an Index Braille embosser, O.B.R. converts your computer to a Braille copy machine.

• O.B.R. works with interpoint or single side Braille, in many different languages.
• O.B.R. reads both sides of an interpoint Braille page with a single scan.
• O.B.R. even works with larger Braille pages which do not fit on a normal scanner bed: Just merge the left and right side of a Braille page for accurate translation.
• O.B.R. is made for Windows 9X/ME and Windows NT/2000, XP Pro, and XP Home.
• O.B.R. works with most languages and can also convert U.S. Grade 2 Braille back to readable text.
• O.B.R. is exclusively from Sighted Electronics.

A Demo version of the OBR program is available. It is a limited version where you can scan Braille up to 6 Braille lines per page, use the different translation codes etc. for evaluation purposes.

The DEMO version can not be used for any "normal" use, as the save, print and all clipboard functions are disabled.

OBR Demo comes with two disks, calibration sheet and yellow correction filter.

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