Dotify Braille Translation System is an open source Braille formatter and translator written in Java. It also supports embossing and managing braille in PEF-format, including converting to and from other "braille" text formats. Dotify is designed for collaborative, open source braille software development.
- Translates and formats braille
- Emboss a PEF-file
- Validate a PEF-file
- Search meta data in collection of PEF-files
- Convert from text to a PEF-file
- Convert from a PEF-file to text
- Split a PEF-file into one file per volume
- Merge several PEF-files into one
Dotify supports a range of embossers, including popular Index and Braillo embossers. Note however that several embossers are untested, due to lack of access and/or time.
Less than 10 seconds/book or over 70 braille pages/second (based on a selection of novels) utilizing a single core of a modern PC and including startup activites. Startup activites account for up to 4 seconds of the total processing time in this example. The performance is thus even better when running in a server environment (e.g. as part of a Daisy Pipeline 2 installation), since the startup activites rarely have to be repeated.
Performance could be improved further by utilizing more than one core.
Download the latest release and unpack it. For more information, see the user guide
in the docs folder.
Build with gradlew build (Windows) or ./gradlew build (Mac/Linux)
Tests are run with gradlew test (Windows) or ./gradlew test (Mac/Linux)
- Requires Java 8
- Compatible with SPI
See the common wiki for more information.