Pipeline

Technologies, Projects & Services

Pipeline

Purpose

The DAISY Pipeline is an open-source, cross-platform framework and user interface for the automated processing of digital content in and between various file formats. It facilitates the production and maintenance of accessible content for people with print disabilities. It can be used by anyone creating and upgrading digital content for print-disabled readers.

Features

  • Accessibility—There are Pipeline transformations for migrating from one accessible format to another, enriching an input format with certain accessible features, and producing formats targeting specific disability reading systems.
  • Standards—Notable file formats that the Pipeline evolves around are EPUB 3, DAISY, PEF and eBraille.
  • Cross-platform—The application can be run on common operating systems.
  • Modular—Pipeline is designed with a modular architecture, the key to better scalability and extensibility.
  • Collaborative—The project is led and maintained by the DAISY Consortium and involves several member organizations. This reduces the duplication of effort and ensures maximum sharing of best practices among the user community.

Open-source—Pipeline is distributed under a business-friendly license (LGPL), to stimulate collaboration between organizations and to maximize reuse and integration in other contexts, including commercial software.

Pipeline App

The Pipeline App brings the power of the DAISY Pipeline to your desktop! It is designed to be easy to install and easy to use. If you are new to Pipeline, this is a great place to start.

Development of the Pipeline App was made possible by Microsoft.

The Pipeline app is powered by the Pipeline 2 software. Pipeline 2 can also be used as a web application, as a service, or from the command line.

Pipeline 1

The original Pipeline version remains an important technology for some DAISY members. It is a versatile tool that is still available in multiple versions. Pipeline 1 is an archived project as it is not in active development.

Because a lot of organisations still rely on some Pipeline 1 converters in their production today, we are currently working on making these legacy converters available through the Pipeline app and other Pipeline 2 user and programming interfaces, in order to make the transition to Pipeline 2 smoother and to retire the Pipeline 1 user interface.

Save As DAISY – MS Word Add-In

For Windows users, there is also the Save As DAISY add-in for MS Word, which is becoming a DAISY Pipeline user interface specifically for processing Word documents.