The braille editor we built for transcribers. Work directly on formatted braille pages with six-key entry, translate print into UEB and Nemeth, and open the BRF, .B2K and .BML files you already have.
Works on Windows, Mac and iPad.
Quality Brailler needs a computer or an iPad. On a phone, try the Free Braille Translator.
To start your 14-day free trial, open Quality Brailler and create a free Quality Braille Transcriptions (QBT) account. In the box “Create your free QBT account”, type your email address and choose “Email me a code”. If that box is not open, choose “Create a free account” first. In the web version, the page is called “Sign in or create account”, and its button is also “Email me a code”. You do not need a card.
Free download from Microsoft Store for Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) and Windows 11, 64-bit, and, in the United States, from the Mac App Store for macOS 13.3 or later. One 14-day free trial per email address, with no card needed. After that, plans are $29 a month or $290 a year (see plans). On an iPad or any other computer, use the web version in your browser, signed in with your QBT account.
How Quality Brailler compares with Duxbury, BrailleBlaster and Braille2000
You edit the braille itself, on real braille pages. Print is there when you need it: to type in, to translate from, and to proofread against.
Work on braille pages 40 cells by 25 lines, one or two at a time. Enter braille with six-key entry on F D S and J K L, type ASCII braille, or use on-screen braille keys on a touch screen.
Running heads, print page numbers and page-change lines are laid out for you, and every Nemeth passage is highlighted from its opening indicator to its terminator, so code switches are easy to check.
Side by side puts each braille page next to its back-translated print page, with bold and italic kept and Nemeth math shown as print. Tables, transcriber’s notes and guide dots line up with the braille. Click a line of print to edit a UEB paragraph as print, and the braille updates as you type.
You can also open two documents, or a PDF of the print book, beside the braille and scroll them together.
Interline view puts the print under every braille line, on the same layout as the braille page. Print view back-translates the whole transcription for proofreading, special symbols and transcriber’s notes pages included.
Switch between braille, ASCII, print and interline views at any time.
Tag a braille page as a tactile graphic with its description, and it stands out in pale yellow. Tactile graphic tags already in a .B2K or .BML file are read when you open it.
The page overview lists every braille or print page with what is on it: text, tactile graphic or blank, and every graphic with its page, revision and approval. Pick pages by number, show only those, print them, or copy them line for line to paste into CorelDRAW.
Embed the graphics directly into the file for proofreading. Insert them from your CorelDRAW PDF and each one fills its tagged braille page, so you read the volume with every graphic in place, next to the braille around it.
Each graphic keeps its revision and approval, and File > Emboss sends the text pages to your braille embosser and the graphic pages to your graphics embosser.
The Braille Checker checks the open document, with your graphics PDF if you add it, and lists every error and warning: emphasis left open, symbols missing from the Special Symbols page, numbering that skips, and more.
Click a finding to go straight to it, mark the place for later, and save the report as a PDF.
Quality Brailler Braille Prep is a free add-in for Microsoft Word. It checks a Word document for what would be lost or wrong in braille (headings that are only bold text, pictures with no description, columns lined up with tabs, typed math and more), fixes it with you, and sends the finished document to Quality Brailler. No braille knowledge needed. It works in Word for Windows, Mac and Word on the web.
It is free in Microsoft’s add-in store. In Word you can also choose Home › Add-ins and search “Braille Prep”.
Get it from Microsoft Marketplace
School or company blocks the store? Other ways to add it. More about Braille Prep.
Rather have it done for you? Our certified transcribers produce and proofread braille books, textbooks and Nemeth math. Certified braille transcription
There is one 14-day free trial per email address, with full access and no card needed. The trial begins the first time you use Quality Brailler with your QBT account.
Renews automatically each month until you cancel.
Subscribe monthlyTwo months free compared with monthly. Renews automatically each year until you cancel.
Subscribe yearlyYou need one for translation, the print views and the Braille Checker. They run on the QBT server under your QBT account, so they need an account and an internet connection. The installed app opens, edits and saves braille files without an account or an internet connection. The web version always needs both. You can create an account inside the app: enter your email and choose Email me a code.
There is one 14-day free trial per email address, with full access and no card needed. If you delete an account that had Quality Brailler and sign up again with the same address, the new account doesn’t get a free trial. The trial starts the first time you use Quality Brailler with your QBT account. When it ends, choose a monthly or yearly plan to keep going. See what happens when a trial or plan ends.
No. The downloads from Microsoft Store and the Mac App Store are free. Plans are sold by Quality Braille Transcriptions LLC: choose one on this page, or in the Windows app or the web version (the button “Free trial: … days left · Subscribe” at the bottom of the window, or Plans & billing on the Account menu, or under Translation in the Setup tab of the tool dock), signed in with your QBT account, and pay on a secure Stripe checkout page that opens in your browser. No sales tax is added.
A license is for one person, used on one computer at a time. If you open Quality Brailler on another computer, choose Use it here and the license moves there. The web version counts as one of those computers. Need it on more than one computer at a time? Email support@qualitybraille.com.
Yes. Quality Brailler works on Windows, Mac and iPad. On Windows, install the app from Microsoft Store. On a Mac in the United States, install it from the Mac App Store. On an iPad, or on any other computer, use the web version in your browser at app.qualitybraille.com/brailler, signed in with the same QBT account. The iPad app is not released yet. Chrome or Edge works best: in other browsers, each save downloads a copy instead of saving in place. Quality Brailler needs a computer or an iPad. On a phone, try the Free Braille Translator.
Yes. .BML files open with their formatting and highlights, and .B2K, .BRF and .BRL files open from their braille pages, one paragraph per line. Some settings in .B2K and .BML files aren’t read yet, so a few files may lay out slightly differently than they do in the program that made them. Braille2000 is a trademark of its respective owner. Quality Brailler is an independent product of Quality Braille Transcriptions LLC and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or certified by Braille2000, LLC.
No. Your braille files stay on your computer. Text and braille go to our server only when you use a feature that needs it: translating (including Type print and opening a Word, Markdown or text file to translate), showing braille as print (the print, interline and side-by-side views, the print title page in two-page view, editing a paragraph or running head as print, and printing or saving a PDF that includes print), and the Braille Checker. We send the result straight back without storing it. The one exception is Convert a PDF to braille: we keep a copy of the PDF and its braille as your transcription record. Read about PDF conversions in our privacy policy. If you save a Braille Checker PDF report, we keep a short-term copy for up to 30 minutes so you can open it.
Yes. If you change your mind, email support@qualitybraille.com within 7 days of your purchase for a full refund.
The braille converter turns a whole textbook PDF into braille-ready BRF files. Quality Brailler is an editor: you work on braille page by page, entering, formatting, proofreading and checking it. Each has its own plans.
Braille2000 and CorelDRAW are trademarks of their respective owners. Quality Brailler is an independent product of Quality Braille Transcriptions LLC and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or certified by them. Microsoft, Windows and Microsoft Store are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
Get Quality Brailler from Microsoft Store or, in the United States, the Mac App Store, or use it in your browser. Create a free account or sign in, and open a file you are working on. No card needed.
Braille transcription editor: six-key entry on formatted braille pages, UEB and Nemeth translation, proofreading views and the Braille Checker built in. Windows, Mac and iPad.
Upload a textbook PDF, review the extracted structure and export embosser-ready BRF for a transcriber to review. Starts with 25 free pages.
A quality-control report for Braille2000 .B2K and .BML files. It is also built into Quality Brailler.
Free Microsoft Word add-in that finds what would be lost or wrong in braille, fixes it with you and sends the document to Quality Brailler.
Type text or a name and see it in UEB braille, free, in your browser.
