1. A Customized Digital Library
For Students With an
Impairments in the Written
Communication
Jan Rottier
Jan.rottier@eurekaleuven.be

2. Eureka ADIBib wants to create opportunities
for students with an impairment in written
communication to participate fully in
education.
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3.  Customize educational books in digital
version, ready for text-to-speech
 Automatisation of the process of digital
adaptation
 Trusted third party
 Provide Basic training programs
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4. Students with an impairment in written
communication in elementary and secondary
schools.
Only with certificate
 Dyslexia
 Dyspraxia
 SEN
o Special schools
o Integrated education
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5.  Publishers
• GEWU (group of educational en scientific publishers)
 Ministery of Education
• Financial support of the trial project since 2008
• Structural Financial support since September 2011
 Software vendors of text-to-speech
• The two biggest
• Quality of software is determining for quality of digital
books
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6. Book
available Yes Ordering •Cd-rom
•download Shipping
on Free
(Only
website? shippingcost)
No
Request
to ADIBib Publisher Automatic
PDF to Book on
and
ADIBib to ADIBIB website
manual
publisher
conversion
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7. New Tool
 Automatisation
 Reduction of time : factor 5 to 10
(approximately 1 to 4 hours for one book)
 Output: tagged PDF format
o Text
o language
After automatic conversion: visual inspection
and correction
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8. Conversion software
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9. Tool for final visual inspection/correction
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10.  Sensitive
 Maximum security and minimum inconvenience
 Watermarked digital files (name student, school,
date)
 Everyuser of digital books must have the printed
version
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11.  Broader goal group
 Every education level (also adult education,
second change education, …)
 Collaboration with more publishers, software
companies (e.g. screenreaders), …
 More then 1000 new titels a year
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12.  Publishersprovide an accessible digital
version besides the printed version.
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13. Do not go where the path may
lead;
go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson