ISAKO
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Original Format Electronic Publishing
An innovative Electronic Publishing technology
ISAKO's innovative technology, "Original
Format Electronic Publishing", OFEP, allows for fully functional electronic publication of scanned printed
content. Eliminating the need for manual keying significantly reduces the cost
of creating an electronic publishing product.
Consultable on screen or on paper after printing, the
documents are read in their original facsimile scanned image format, thus
preserving the benefits of the publisher's original page layout. In particular,
after a search query, the desired search matches are
highlighted
within the original page's facsimile image. This is the novelty and the
exclusive functionality of the OFEP technology.
OVERVIEW
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Standard image format is used for
input, mostly TIFF for scanned pages or PDF when available
without scanning.
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Using OCR technology, automatic
processing reconstitutes the textual content.
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Text content is fully searchable:
the full text of the document is indexed; every word can be identified and
highlighted.
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Structural elements
(such as titles, chapters, headings and page numbers) are identified
automatically based on their typographic attributes. These elements are integrated
into an industry standard XML format. If needed, they are extracted and
indexed separately. This XML document follows the splitting of the content into
documentary units (which are not necessarily the same as the physical
page-bound display units).
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The content rich XML document
resulting from the input pages allows for advanced search options including
multi-criteria search queries.
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With the documentary units being
precisely defined, the search follows and remains faithful to the exact
logical structure of the contents.
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Output display formats are standard
image formats: mostly TIFF for off-line usage; or PDF for
Internet usage. The content is always an exact digital facsimile copy of the
original document.
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Upon retrieval of a document in its
original format, words corresponding to the search query are highlighted.
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Perfect readability,
including mathematical formulas, tables, diagrams and charts, illustrations and
any other graphical elements.
In summary, printed pages become live and interactive
while maintaining their original look and feel.
ADVANTAGES
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No manual data entry (keying) costs,
creating substantial saving.
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OFEP technology allows for the use
of various input image formats. It handles PDF documents as easily as
scanned TIFF images.
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Using PDF as an input format is
particularly important since in recent years publishers often have a PDF
version of their publications. Thus, using the OFEP technology, it is possible
to create a fully interactive electronic publication without changing or
adding to the existing editorial workflow.
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Original page layout maintained.
This is particularly important if original pages contain illustrations, figures
and tables.
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Controlling - allowing or disabling
- the direct text cutting-and-pasting feature.
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Hypertext links to other pages are
added, allowing intuitive and easy navigation.
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Alphabetical and domain-dependant
indexes are added. For example, supplying alphabetical access
in a dictionary type publication.
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OFEP technology allows for the use
of same data in two separate ways: off-line (CD/DVD) and on-line (Internet)
publishing, but data needs to be prepared only once.
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OFEP technology is used with any
search engine. It is easily integrated into any existing platform.
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The XML indexed format is
easily adaptable to the retrieval needs. This is particularly useful in any
multi-source environment.
WHO IS ISAKO
ISAKO specializes in documentary systems and
electronic publishing. ISAKO has created numerous documentary products and
services, both in off-line and on-line environments. Our staff is highly
experienced in all domains of publishing: editorial and content management
systems, data and text conversion, search engines and complete retrieval
systems including access control and back-office management.
COLLABORATION WITH PUBLISHERS
ISAKO has collaborated on a number of electronic
publishing projects. Among them -- the first edition of France's well-known
historical dictionary, Grand Dictionnaire Universel de Pierre LAROUSSE
(1866) on DVD; distributed for sale by Le Robert publishing. This
publication uses ISAKO's OFEP technology. To access the first volume of this dictionary,
visit our Internet site at http://www.isako.com and follow the DEMO link on the Technologies
section.
CONTACT
Shalev Vayness Director
of Operations and Business Development
tel: 33-1-5830-6855 shalev@isako.com