Exegenix: Intelligent Content Access and Conversion Solutions

Intelligent Document Conversion Solutions^®

We want to keep in touch with you - to let you know about the latest developments with the Exegenix Conversion System, and to ensure we're doing all we can to meet your potential document conversion requirements.

We think that an occasional newsletter is a good way to do this. We won't inundate you with email every week, or even every month - just when we have things we think you'll be interested to hear.

So - welcome to the inaugural edition of the Exegenix Newsletter

In This Issue

New in the ECS	User Interfaces
Insider Information	Hyphenation Special Characters
Exegenix In Action	XML Europe 2003 OpenPublish 2003
Launching	Exegenix Partner Program
Exegenix Welcomes	Charlie Halpern-Hamu, VP Technology
Resources	ECS product brochure Document complexity in XML conversion The Exegenix Export DTD XML 2002 presentation

New in the Exegenix Conversion System

Exegenix announced new user interfaces to the ECS at XML 2002 in Baltimore in December. The ECS now consists of the following modules:

The ECS Engine

The automated process that converts submitted documents individually from PDF/PostScript to XML output.

The ECS Inspector

A new interface that enables further streamlining of the conversion process via user-directed actions, if required.

The ECS Inspector allows users to examine structures and text identified by the ECS Engine, and add value to the output XML prior to export.

Example:

A series of financial reports from different organizations contains images that are fundamental to the data (charts, graphs, etc) as well as photographs of corporate executives. Logos of partners and significant customers are also included, in addition to the organizations' corporate logos. In other words, the reports contain many images which will be used in different ways - the executive photographs and the logos, for example, are unlikely to be of interest to a reader scanning for specific financial data.

During the conversion process for these reports, the ECS Inspector would enable a non-technical user to classify the images (chart, person, logo, etc) via simple point-and-click. This would automatically flag the XML output, enabling post-conversion processes to put, for example, chart and graph images in a table of contents, whilst cross-referencing photographic images in an "executive officers" index, or even excluding them altogether if desired.

This is a very simple example of the process we call “hinting”, but the underlying capacity for a non-technical user to direct the conversion output is tremendously powerful.

Hints can be applied to a single page, a series of pages, a whole document or an entire datastream (in our example above, the entire series of financial reports from different organizations).

Administration Interface

A versatile configuration module adapted to each organization's specific requirements, forming the basis of a flexible workflow framework.

For more information on what the ECS can do for your organization, visit our website at www.exegenix.com, or contact Steve Downie, VP Sales and Marketing, for an informal discussion.

Insider Information

Hyphenation

Exegenix has technology to correct hyphenation. Soft and hard hyphens are distinguished using an algorithm that takes into account various clues including capitalization, dictionary lookup and document lexicon. It can be customized with a word list. This step can be replaced by your own de-hyphenation technology or processes if required.

Special characters

Special characters are encoded as ISO entities where possible (which are in turn defined in terms of Unicode character references) or directly as Unicode character references. Character references are expressed in decimal notation for SGML compatibility.

If you have a specific technical query about the XML output produced by the ECS, please contact Ryan Germann, Product Manager.

Exegenix in action

Come and meet with us and see the ECS in action! Our upcoming events are:

XML Europe 2003

Exegenix will be exhibiting May 6-8 in London, UK, Booth #5.

OpenPublish & Knowledge Technologies 2003

Exegenix will be exhibiting June 23-25, in Philadelphia, PA. Booth numbers have not yet been allocated, but we'll keep you informed.

If you'd like to meet with us in person and schedule some exclusive demo time at either of these events, just email Steve Downie, VP Sales and Marketing.

Launching

Exegenix will be launching the Exegenix Partner Program at the XML Europe event, May 6-8 in London, UK.

The program is designed specifically for elite system integrators and professional services organizations who are either planning or currently implementing XML-based solutions with a conversion component.

Please email partners@exegenix.com for a preview of the program and its benefits to you.

Exegenix welcomes

Charlie Halpern-Hamu, VP Technology

Charlie Halpern-Hamu, VP Technology Charlie has recently joined the Exegenix management team, bringing with him more than ten years of experience as an SGML and XML consultant, and over twenty years in structured programming. You may already have met Charlie on the conference circuit - he is an international speaker and educator on XML topics.

At Exegenix, Charlie is guiding the development of the ECS core structure-recognition technology, and using his hands-on experience of XML deployments to help craft this technology into a flexible solution that supports and streamlines practical conversion processes.

Resources

We have the following new resources available for you to download:

ECS Product Brochure

Includes full details of the Exegenix Conversion System. Click to download

Document Complexity in XML Conversion

A discussion of document characteristics from the conversion viewpoint.Click to download

The Exegenix Export DTD

An overview of the Exegenix DTD and the rationale behind its design. Click to download

XML Conversion: Reducing Costs, Increasing Quality

The PowerPoint presentation given by Ryan Germann, Exegenix Product Manager, at XML 2002. Click to download

If you need additional information that you don't see either here or on our website at www.exegenix.com, please let us know. You can contact Sandi Castle, and we'll do our best to accommodate you.

Feedback

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