Conversion Tools and Services

The DAISY Regenerator is a software tool designed to enable organizations to repair and upgrade existing DAISY 2.0 and 2.02 DTBs.

The tool takes a DAISY 2.0 or 2.02 DTB as input, and performs a series of operations on it in order to output a valid DAISY 2.02 DTB.

Features include:

• Conversion of HTML and SMIL files to valid XML
• Fixes of reoccuring errors and inconsistencies that existed in the output of early versions of production tools
• Ability to rename files sequentially (so that they play in order in MP3 players)

Why use the Regenerator?

• Because the elimination of possible errors will yield a better experience for the end user reading the DAISY 2.02 DTB.
• Because a valid DAISY 2.02 DTB is future safe. Only valid DAISY 2.02 DTBs are guaranteed to be upgradeable to the DAISY 3 standard. In this respect, the Regenerator may be regarded as an organization's "Swiss Army knife" of longevity.

The Regenerator works together with the DAISY 2.02 Validator. After regeneration has been done, the DTB can be automatically validated, to ensure that no errors or inconsistencies remain.

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EasyConverter is designed for use in schools, colleges, universities, small or large companies and government organisations. It is simple to use for those with no altformat creation experience, and is equally suited to experienced professionals looking for a single flexible high quality altformat creation tool to meet the needs of dyslexic, visually impaired and learning disabled students.

Key Benefits:

• Offering students the formats of their preference ensures that you meet the growing legislation on inclusion.
• Popular materials can be stored for future years and simply converted to specifically meet the needs of new students in their preferred format. 
• Significant time saving benefits allow you the tutor to concentrate on teaching the curriculum.
• EasyConverter ensures that you remain adaptable, and able to convert from a wide range of file formats including printed handouts to downloaded PDFs, Word files and HTML documents.
• EasyConverter 5.01 allows users create the very latest DAISY 3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2005) books.

For more information, please visit the official website for EasyConverter by Dolphin.

eClipseWriter Pro includes a self-voicing word processor that highlights words or phrases as text is read aloud using your choice of SAPI 5 synthetic voices. Authors may create their own original text or edit existing copy. DAISY Formatting processes may be automated or achieved using simple manual document mark-up that allows you to edit documents for more detailed structure and graphics presentation.

Updated \SAVE AS DAISY\ feature allows you to open any of the supported text formats and create accessible portable audio media with heading, page and phrase navigation. This process is completely automated from start to finish and guided by a step by step build book wizard. It will even burn you a DAISY CD automatically when the automated rendering process is complete.

For more information, please visit the official website for eClipseWriter Professional Edition.

MathDaisy works with Microsoft Word, the Save As DAISY add-in for Microsoft Word, and MathType. Save As DAISY add-in installation adds a \Save As DAISY\ menu item to Word's File menu. This command saves the document as a DAISY Digital Talking Book. MathDaisy enhances the Word-to-DAISY conversion process, converting the equations in the document to MathML as required by the DAISY format. If the original document contains mathematical equations, then users will need to install the MathDaisy add-in to add support for mathematical equations, making them accessible to students, teachers, engineers, and scientists with disabilities.

For more information, please visit the official website for MathDaisy from Design Science.

Planman Technlogies assists their clients in converting their print / electronic media to DAISY / DTBook compliant format using their proprietary workflows. Planman is actively offering DAISY conversion services and workflows to all major Libraries, Organizations and Publishers worldwide.