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

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

Nothing, including Duxbury, is going to accurately reformat braille files
into Word documents.  Not enough information is present in the files to help
a program guess whether a line was indented because it is a heading, is a
runover from a perevious line, etc.  A lot of work went into producing the
file formatted for braille, and many changes are made when going from print
to braille which cannot be undone without access to the original print
material.  

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Humberto Avila
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 4:16 PM
> To: GUI-talk at nfbNet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] free application for converting BRF to word files
> 
> 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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