BrailleTrans for Java

Now available on GitHub!

This is a free text (Unicode or ANSI) to Braille (American Braille Code) translator. It is released under the GNU Public Licence from the Free Software Foundation. If you are looking for a non-Java Braille translation system try the liblouis C braille translation program.

BrailleTrans comes in the form of a Java package and a set of translation files that allow applications to be built that convert text to Braille. Grade 1 and Grade 2 contractions and international character sets (Unicode) are all supported.

• BrailleTrans project report. PDF version. Information about use and coding.
• BrailleTrans Java source code. Version 1.0.
• BrailleTrans Java Class Library. This contains the compiled Java library. Version 1.0
• Javadoc documentation for the BrailleTrans library. Javadoc documentation as zipped HTML
• BrailleTrans Miscellaneous Code. This is development, incomplete and test code. It includes the Stopwatch class which is required for some of the testing code.

Further reading

BrailleTrans is based on the work of Paul Blenkhorn at the University of Manchester. The following publications contain a full description of the algorithm behind BrailleTrans and the complete tables for British English to Braille and vice-versa.

Blenkhorn, Paul

"A System for Converting Braille into Print", IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 3, No 2, pp 215 - 221, June 1995.

Blenkhorn, Paul

"A System for Converting Print into Braille", IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol 5, No 2, pp121 - 129, June 1997.