Seybold 2002

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Seybold 2002
Ready made solutions. Bespoke development,
configuration and consultancy.

• Mark Stephens
• (Managing Director)

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- Storypad

• Problem
• Extract data from 60 million publishing system
  for News International.

Our Solution Turn postscript into pdf and
extract the textual content.
The key element is some very clever Java software
that we developed in house because we were unable
to find a pre-existing solution with the
flexibility and sophistication required
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What can you use Storypad for?

• Re-use material from pdf
• Articles
• Adverts
• Catalogues
• Clipped images
• Extract data from legacy systems.

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Note from our legal department

• Storypad REFUSES
• to take content from
• ENCRYPTED pdf files

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Storypad New York 2002

• Corporate and Personal versions
• Improved text extraction.
• Graphics extraction.
• User Interface improved.
• Extendible 250,000 word hyphenation dictionary.
• Speed.
• Enhanced pdf viewer.
• Bugs fixed (both of them)

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Storypad Versions

• Corporate
• Extract and repurpose.
• Client/server with batch mode
• ODBC (any database).
• Highly configurable.
• Fee tailored to client usage.
• 24X7 support
• Customisation available

Personal Extract. Client tool MySQL/PostGresSQL -
April Simplified workflow 159 (99 until
April) E-mail support
Same code base
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Graphics Extraction with or without scaling and
clipping.
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Page Snapshot bitmap copy with or without text
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Text ExtractionFully editable with or without
XHTML mark-up and XML wrapper
Copy and paste straight out, save as file, save
to database
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Adjustable levels of Intelligent Grouping user
definable master and text objects
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Manual Mergingfrom individual objects to full
stories
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Multi-Platform

• Linux and penguin graphics

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Whats NextMore Grouping algorithms, table
extraction, JAVA Library/API.
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Interested??
Storypad Personal Edition available now
exclusively from
Introductory offer of US99 until the end of March

• Visit our website at
• www.idrsolutions.com
• Or come and see us