Winsight: towards completely automatic backtranslation of Nemeth code

  • Authors:

  • D. Gopal;Q. Wang;G. Gupta;S. Chitnis;H. Guo;A. Karshmer

  • Affiliations:

  • Logical Software Solutions, Plano, TX;Logical Software Solutions, Plano, TX and University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX;Logical Software Solutions, Plano, TX;University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE;University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'07 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Universal access in human-computer interaction: applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We present the Winsight system, a Windows-based software system for completely automatic translation of Nemeth Braille code to LATEX. The Winsight system takes hard copy Braille input containing Mathematics (written in Nemeth Braille code) and text (written in contracted Braille) via a scanner, performs image recognition and analysis of the scanned file to generate the ASCII Braille file, automatically separates Nemeth Braille coded expressions and contracted Braille text, backtranslates them to LATEX math expressions and LATEX text respectively, and produces a print output file in pdf format containing the result of backtranslation. The Winsight system comes with tools that allow users to manually intervene during each step, if they desire, to fix any errors reported by the system or seen by the user. In this paper we give an overview of the Winsight system.