Braille preservation service

[kestrell]

The American Printing House for the Blind has an electronic braille preservation service which will scan braille books, metal plates, etc., and convert it to electronic format
https://www.aph.org/custom/braille-preservation/

Also, here is a Windows optical braille scanning program that works with a flatbed scanner, although I have no experience with it so cannot say how well it works
http://www.karishmaenterprises.com/OBR.htm

Comments

I am so glad this exists now!

[jesse_the_k]

Centuries of hard labor went into the production of most of that braille.

Re: I am so glad this exists now!

[kestrell]

I found out about it because someone on a blind tech list asked if there was a service that could convert his decades-worth of writing in braille, and everybody said no such thing existed, so I'm glad they were wrong about that. However, I seem to recall that Kurzweil 1000 can do this, I know I read it somewhere years ago, but now I can't find any info about it.
I also came across a post about how the NLS was converting its music braille to electronic braille, and many of the documents were so old that many of the dots didn't scan, so it all had to be proofread by hand. I know from my scanning of poetry that that means probably at least fifty percent is typed by hand.