The client is a leading non-governmental organization for the visually impaired people. The Institute supports blind and partially sighted people by providing information, support and advice various issues. One of their important activities is to make conventional printed books available in the form of Large Print Books, Braille Books, and Talking Books for the benefit of blind and partially sighted people.

The Institute publishes books and materials especially for use of the blind or visually impaired. They publish material in Braille for the blind and in Audio format. They also publish large print books and other publications especially aimed for the visually impaired. All these three outputs are in format with no co-relation to each other. It is a time consuming and expensive process. So the Institute required printed books to be converted to a common format to facilitate output in Large Print, Braille, and Audio Book, using their specifications.

VITL suggested a solution of producing a common XML file using a custom made DTD (Document Type Definition). The XML files so created could be converted any format such as Audio Book, Braille Book, or Large Print Book with minimal or no change required to the XML.

1. Through constant interaction with the client and continuous sampling method, we zeroed in on the perfect delivery methodology.
2. Two OCR engines were used to ensure completeness and perfection of text
3. Spell check was performed on the text extracted from the page (TIFF format)
4. In-house tools were developed to insert short tags and convert short tags into valid XML tags.
5. To accommodate client’s specific requirement we use Altova XML Spy & Corel WordPerfect for viewing & parsed to validate the XML file.

We have been successfully delivering single full-text XML file to cater to all the needs of the institute. The Institute makes this information available through XML in their online library and online stores.