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iwona_kellie Imaging software translates hard-copy pages into their equivalent digital image or text files. While this resource can be used effectively to supplement lessons for sighted students, those who are sight impaired need more than images or text. A unique type of imaging software, called Optical Braille Recognition (OBR) software, serves these students and their teachers by using a scanner to translate Braille. OBR software enables the teacher to scan a Braille page and translate it into text for the teacher and for sighted students. Further, the text file can be saved, stored, and later used with a Braille printer to recreate the original Braille document. This imaging software makes it possible for non-Braille readers to read documents used by sight-impaired students, to archive Braille books, and to reprint Braille pages when needed.
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