Contents -------- 1. Overview 2. Front end 3. Documentation Overview ----------------------- A cross platform utility package/library for embossing and converting PEF-files BrailleUtils provides a cross platform API for embossing and converting braille in PEF-format. Conversion to and from commonly used "braille" text formats is also supported. The package is written in Java and contains basic user interfaces for common operations. However, the main purpose of the package is as part of other software, such as the Daisy Pipeline and odt2braille. Main Features * Code license: GNU Lesser GPL * Emboss PEF-files * Convert to or from PEF-files * Split or merge PEF-files * written in java, cross-platform Supported embossers: The package currently supports popular Index and Braillo embossers, such as: * Index Basic-D * Index Everest * Braillo 200......//270/400 * Braillo 440 For details, see the complete list of supported embossers. (Quoted from: http://code.google.com/p/brailleutils/) Front End -------- The front end has been packaged separately in the package brailleutils and has been made available using $ brailleutils Documentation ------------- Documentation can be found at /usr/share/doc/libbrailleutils-java-doc (when the libbrailleutils-java-doc package is installed) or at the web site above. -- Sebastian Humenda Tue, 09 Apr 2013 19:20:17 +0200