Dotify

• Contributors: Joel Håkansson, Bert Frees
• Code license: GNU Lesser GPL
• Language: Java
• Platform: Cross platform
• Code URL: https://github.com/brailleapps/dotify-cli

Contents

1. Description
2. Installation
3. Help Resources

1 Description

Dotify is a cross platform command line interface.

It's features include braille production as well as embossing and managing PEF-files, including upgrading from and downgrading to commonly used "braille" text formats.

Main Features

• Translates and formats braille
• Emboss a PEF-file
• Validate a PEF-file
• Search meta data in collection of PEF-files
• Convert from text to a PEF-file
• Convert from a PEF-file to text
• Split a PEF-file into one file per volume
• Merge several PEF-files into one

Supported embossers

Dotify supports a range of embossers, including popular Index and Braillo embossers. Note however that several embossers are untested, due to lack of access and/or time.

For details, see the complete list of supported embossers by typing the following command: dotify list embossers

2 Installation

You can download a ready-to-run binary variant of this library from https://github.com/brailleapps/dotify-cli

Building

Build with gradlew build (Windows) or ./gradlew build (Mac/Linux) in the source directory. The built library can be found under build/distributions/.

3 Help Resources

See the latest version of the written documentation on https://github.com/brailleapps/dotify-cli