Perky Duck

Perky Duck is an application especially designed for students or people who want to transcribe text to the Braille language. It’s a simple and straightforward tool that enables you to create documents in Braille which can then be printed or embossed using specialized equipment.

Perky Duck displays a simple and ‘straight to the point’ user interface which makes it a practical tool for anyone that is familiar to writing in Braille using six-key entry. Its main window is comprised of a large editing section and a tab that contains menus for various features.

Installing the application simple with the only challenge being embosser model selection but even so, if you're not sure what to choose, you can opt for anything and change it later.

As far as features go, Perky Duck offers you the basic, must haves for applications of this sort. You can save documents to your computer, print them directly from the application, copy content and navigate to a specific page, line or column number.

It’s also possible to view content in Braille or SlimBraille and you can switch between Braille language and print font views. The application makes it easy to work with Braille as long as you are familiar to it because otherwise, you won't get much out of it as it doesn’t offer any kind of embedded translation assistance.

When it comes to features Perky Duck might not offer that much or more of what you expected but in terms of embossing device compatibility, there are a lot of possibilities. It comes with a very large list of equipment models you can choose from and you can customize them to a large extent.

The application enables you to configure output options, set baud rate, data and stop bits, punctuation type and much more.

In closing, Perky Duck is a reliable and easy to manage tool that can offer real help in transcribing text to Braille using six-key entry.