Braille Translator

How to use

1. 1Type or paste English text into the input on the left. The Braille translation appears on the right and updates live as you type.
2. 2Paste a string of Braille cells to switch direction automatically. Override with the Text to braille or Braille to text buttons if you want to force one direction.
3. 3Use Try a sample to load a short example like Hello world, the alphabet, or pre-encoded Braille so you can see both directions in action.
4. 4Use Use output as input to round-trip the translation, or Copy output to grab the result for documents, captions, or labels.
5. 5Scroll to the Braille alphabet reference grid to see every letter, digit, indicator, and punctuation mark with its raised-dot pattern.

About this tool

Braille Translator converts plain English text to Unicode Grade 1 (uncontracted) English Braille and back, entirely in your browser. The encoder writes each letter as a single six-dot Braille cell from the Unicode Braille Patterns block (U+2800 to U+28FF), prefixes uppercase letters with the standard capital indicator (dot 6), and opens runs of digits with the number indicator (dots 3-4-5-6) so that 1 through 9 use the cells for letters a through i and 0 uses the cell for j. Common punctuation marks (period, comma, question mark, exclamation, semicolon, colon, apostrophe, hyphen, slash, parentheses, and quotation marks) are mapped to their literary Braille cells. The decoder honors the same indicators and walks each cell with full state so number runs end at the first non-digit and capital flags only the next letter. Direction is auto-detected from the input: a string made mostly of Braille cells is decoded back to text, anything else is encoded. The page also includes a complete reference grid with every letter, digit, indicator, and punctuation mark shown as both a Unicode cell and a 3 by 2 raised-dot diagram, useful for learning the alphabet, preparing tactile labels, building accessibility samples, or studying for a Braille certification. Output is plain Unicode text that copies cleanly into documents, social posts, design tools, embossing software, and Braille displays. Nothing is uploaded; every translation runs locally on your device.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.