Creation of an IT Enabled Sinhala to Braille Conversion Engine

Different text to Braille converter software for different languages is currently available. But for Sinhala language there is no such converter. Hence the visually impaired people of Srilanka who work with Sinhala language, suffer a lot. They need to operate manually for getting the desired output, which is a time consuming procedure. This software / conversion engine will easily convert the Sinhala text into the corresponding Braille document and will assist the learning process of visually impaired person of Srilanka. The additional advantage of the software is, it can produce the Braille output such that user can take Braille print of it using windows printing mechanism. Keywords— Sinhala Language, Braille, Conversion Engine, COM (Component object model), ADD IN Technology, Unicode, Sinhala Pack for Microsoft windows XP.