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Generating Braille from OpenOffice.org

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2010)

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Odt2Braille is an open-source extension to OpenOffice.org with the goal to generate Braille from an office suite. It is powered by liblouisxml, a library intended to provide complete Braille transcription services for XML documents. Odt2Braille will enable authors to print their document to an embosser or to export a Braille file. The output is well-formatted and highly customizable. The work is part of the European R&D project ÆGIS.

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  1. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001, Heverlee-Leuven, Belgium

    Bert Frees, Christophe Strobbe & Jan Engelen

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Frees, B., Strobbe, C., Engelen, J. (2010). Generating Braille from OpenOffice.org. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_15

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