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Analog production methods for braille material, like braille typewriter or thermoforming processes, are still in use. Thereupon exists the wish to archive and preserve those materials, e.g. by digitalizing it. Research in the field of braille writing system detection and braille transcription has been sparse. Therefore we present a system to digitize printed Braille-documents.
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Schwarz, T., Dolp, R., Stiefelhagen, R. (2018). Optical Braille Recognition. In: Miesenberger, K., Kouroupetroglou, G. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10896. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94277-3_22
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