Vendors of Paper Braille Scanning Software

This is a an interesting category. Many organizations need a way to optically scan their existing stock of paper braille, in order to create electronic files.

Some organizations spend a considerable amount of money maintaining a legacy library of braille volumes, many hand created. While using OCR on the corresponding inkprint is a possibility, it would be quite time consuming and expensive.

If you know about a project or a product to scan paper braille (even if not successful), please submit it to this list.

Index Braille
Hantverksvagen 20, Box 155
Gammelstad S-954 23
Sweden
+46 920 20 30 80 v
+46 920 20 30 85 f
info@indexbraille.com
OBCR multi-lingual OCR software, now shipping, for $895 converts paper braille to ASCII file.
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Opus Technologies
13333 Thunderhead St
San Diego CA 92129
858-538-9401 v
858-538-9401 f
opus@opustec.com
has done some work on scanning braille, no product yet.
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Techno-Vision Systems Ltd
76 Bunting Road Ind. Est.
Northampton Northants. NN2 6EE
United Kingdom
+44 160-479-2777 v
+44 160-479-2776 f
info@techno-vision.co.uk
major braille producer in the United Kingdom
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