[Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

[Gaeir Dietrich]

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From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On
Behalf Of Neal Sorensen
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:19 PM
To: athen-list at u.washington.edu
Subject: Re: [Athen] text-only DAISY conversion

 

Hello Heidi,

 

Bookshare books are surprisingly easy to convert to Text Only.  Here's a
quick how-to.

 

1.       Unzip the file downloaded from Bookshare, and open the extracted
folder.

2.       Look for the file ending in .XML and open it in an internet browser
(I recommend Firefox)

3.       Copy the full text from the browser and paste it into a word
processor.

4.       Breathe easy

 

XML file contains the full text, often with Images, with some rich text
formatting and pages indicated.  XML usually contains styles too, but I
don't think that is included in the Bookshare XML.

 

I have noticed that newer versions of Mac OS X have had compatibility issues
with Bookshare software.  Read:OutLoud hasn't run successfully for me in
almost a year on Macs.  This is the best method I have discovered for
working around that issue, and still using Bookshare content with those
students.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Neal Sorensen

Specialist of Assistive Technology

Office of Disability Resources

Naropa University: Boulder, CO

nsorensen at naropa.edu

Phone: 303-546-3560

 

The Machine is Us/ing Us:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g

"A wonderful exploration of how new types of text are changing the world."

 

 

Hi all,

 

This semester we've had several students who are needing text-only DAISY so
that they can access DAISY on their Android devices.  Is anyone out there
converting to text-only DAISY? We've been in contact with Bookshare and they
use the Save As DAISY plug-in for Word. But we aren't having any luck
getting that to work.

 

Anyone have any ideas??

 

Thanks in advance!!

 

Heidi

 

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