[gui-talk] free application for converting BRF to word files

[Dean Martineau]

Well, unfortunately, you do get what you pay for. You won't find anything free which is comparable to the $600 Duxbury program. 

My quick and dirty solution to these problems is to use regular expressions. I run the back-translated file through Ed-Sharp, though one could use many text editors. There I can strip out any carriage return not followed by a capital letter, and/or not preceded by one of several sentence-ending punctuation marks. If the brf file is marked with indented paragraphs, this is easier. These results aren't perfect, but they makever for a more readable file. You can also use these techniques  to strip unwanted line breaks from the brf file before back translating it. 

Dean

On Jun 15, 2012, at 13:16, "Humberto Avila" <avila.bert.humberto2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> 
> 
> Does anybody on this list know of an application for windows xp or windows 7
> that can accurately convert .brf files into .doc or .DOCX files and that is
> as good as Duxbury braille translator? I found some applications that can
> translate word and text files into .brf, and even an online service that can
> do the text to braille conversion, but I need backwards. I need to be able
> to read, if not, convert .brf files into Microsoft word documents with no
> problem. 
> 
> I find the free nfbTrans and winBT programs less compelling for me because
> they only translate .brf files into .txt text files and the lines of the
> resulting .txt files are very shortened and sometimes run together or many
> blank lines.
> 
> 
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Humberto
> 
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