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We present the Winsight system, a Windows-based software system for completely automatic translation of Nemeth Braille code to 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
math expressions and
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.
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Gopal, D., Wang, Q., Gupta, G., Chitnis, S., Guo, H., Karshmer, A. (2007). Winsight: Towards Completely Automatic Backtranslation of Nemeth Code. In: Stephanidis, C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services. UAHCI 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4556. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73283-9_35
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