/AccessBrailleRAP

Braille transcription software for BrailleRAP. AccessBrailleRAP allow you to input text, translate the text into Braille and 'print' the Braille on a BrailleRAP. This software is compatible with NVDA screen reader.

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AccessBrailleRAP

Braille transcription software for BrailleRAP. NVDA compatible. The project use several open source licensed software:

  • liblouisreact, a liblouis version slightly modified to run in react.js environnement.
  • liblouis
  • pandoc
  • pywebview

Release

You wil find packaged installation in release.

LibLouis

AccessBrailleRAP use liblouis to translate text into Braille. You can select the Braille language (English, French...), contracted or uncontacted Braille, and 6 dots or 8 Dots Braille standard. The original version of liblouis is available here https://github.com/liblouis/liblouis The modified version for react.js is available here https://github.com/crocsg/liblouis The module for react.js is available here https://github.com/crocsg/liblouisreact

liblouis and liblouisreact are licensed under GNU LGPL V2.1

Pandoc

AccesBrailleRAP use pandoc via pypandoc python module, to extract plain text from various file format as word or open office document. So you can open an .odt file, translate it into Braille and emboss.

the original version of pandoc is available here www.pandoc.org

pandoc is licensed under GNU GPL V2.

Pywebview

AccessBrailleRAP use pywebview to display the react.js GUI in embedded in Python backend. Pywebview is a cross-platform wrapper around the webview library. The original version of pywebview is available here https://github.com/r0x0/pywebview

pywebview is licensed under MIT.

License

AccessBrailleRAP is licensed under GNU GPL V3.

Features

  • Translate text into Braille
  • Translate word document into Braille

Screenshot

How to install

Download the latest installer from github release

Select last stable release or lastest development version.

The installer will install AccesBrailleRAP, the needed drivers to control BrailleRAP.

Instruction for build (Windows)

Environnement Install

You’ll need to have Python >= 3.6 and some python dependencies : pyinstaller, pySerial...

First make a python virtual env in a power shell.

$ python -m venv venv

Activate the virtual env (power shell)

$ .\venv\Scripts\activate.ps1

Install all python depencies with:

$ pip install -r requirement.txt

Install all react/js dependencies

$ npm i

Start the App in debug mode (developpement use)

$ npm run startview

Build the App

$ npm run buildview

check dist/AccessBrailleRAP/AccessBrailleRAP.exe