DAISY Pipeline Overview and use cases

The DAISY Pipeline is a transformation tool that solves issues of complexity and complication, where the complex part is the user's necessary decision of what he wants to do, but the complicated part of implementing that decision is taken care of by the Pipeline.

The Pipeline articles on DAISYpedia describe the most widely used transformation options starting with the input file in DTBook format. This is the *.xml file that could be derived from the Save as DAISY plug-in for Microsoft Word and Open Office. Save as DAISY is the recommended tool for creating the DTBook file. All further transformations, including TTS narration, are done using the DAISY Pipeline.

The original reason for creating the DAISY Pipeline was the DAISY Consortium's guarantee to its members that content produced at any given stage of development of the DAISY standard would be future safe and thus could be migrated to the actual stage of said standard. This promise was not only kept, but dozens of other transformational possibilities have been added and are still being added by DAISY members.

The current user interface is composed of over fifty different possibilities, each of which is composed of several transformational steps that follow each other in a logical path to produce the desired outcome.

Whatever you want to do using the Pipeline, the first step is always Ctrl + N which opens the Pipeline Wizard (you can find all keyboard shortcuts by Ctrl + Shift + L)

DAISY Pipeline use cases

• From DTBook to DAISY 2.02 file set
• Using the Narrator to transform a DTBook xml file to a DAISY book
• Validation
• From DAISY 2.02 to DAISY 3.0
• The Character Set Switcher
• Encoding all wav files in a book to MP3
• Create a playlist from your MP3 files

See also

• Visit the DAISY Pipeline Project Home for software downloads, documentation and the development site
• DAISY Pipeline Forum
• DAISY Pipeline Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs).
• DAISY Pipeline Overview and use cases