Exegenix Conversion System

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Exegenix Conversion System

• A breakthrough technology for converting all
  forms of printable electronic content to XML
• Ryan GermannProduct Manager

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Exegenix Technology

• The Exegenix Conversion System generates
  standards-based richly structured XML output.

• This output can be further processed
• into XML (Well-Formed, or compliant to a DTD or
  Schema) via XSL-Transformation Scripts
• into SGML
• into RTF
• into plain ASCII text
• ...

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A New Approach to Conversion

• Old approaches to content conversion comprise the
  bulk of the costs of a given XML implementation
  project.

The Exegenix Conversion System is the tool that
will keep your conversion costs and turnaround
time to a minimum.
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Presentation Overview

• Documents in the Real World
• explains the concepts behind our technology
• The Exegenix Approach
• explain the process and demonstrate the
  technology
• The Exegenix Value Proposition
• explains how our technology will save our
  customers time and money in their XML conversion
  projects

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Documents in the Real World
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Documents in the Real World...

• In The Real World, people communicate ideas by
  arranging words on paper, using universally
  recognised constructs

• sections, section-titles
• paragraphs, block-quotes
• unordered lists, ordered lists, nested lists
• tables
• figure captions
• footnotes
• ...

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The Real World...
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The Real World...
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The Real World...
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The Real World...

• Regardless of the authoring application used to
  create these printed files, we can recognise the
  boundaries of a given content object, and even
  identify specific types of constructs.

In essence, authors communicate not only with
words they rely on the layout of the words on
the page to communicate relationships between
various content objects to the reader. These
relationships are hierarchical in nature.
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The Real World...
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The Exegenix Approach
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Exegenix Approach

• Exegenix technology discovers the structure
  present in the visual representation of a
  document by interpreting the typography and
  layout of the text blocks on the page, in the
  same way as human authors and their readers in
  The Real World

It extracts the text from the source file and
places the text from each distinct object in the
appropriate XML output construct
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Exegenix Technology

• Visual Data Acquisition identifies the characters
  and lines on the page
• Visual Tokenization determines the boundaries of
  each object.
• Structure Identification determines the
  documents structure based on the nature of the
  objects and their relationships.
• XML Generation exports XML to a file.

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Exegenix Conversion System
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Demonstration
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The Exegenix Value Proposition
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Exegenix Value Proposition

• Exegenix Technology Is Vendor Neutral

• Converts documents from word processors, desktop
  publishing applications any editor that can
  print to a file.

Exegenix Technology Is Platform Independent

• Original documents can be created on any
  platform Unix, Windows, Mac
• ECS Runs on Win32, Linux, Solaris

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Exegenix Value Proposition

• Exegenix Technology Enables content

• Converts legacy content to XML, for use with XML
  applications

Exegenix Technology Enables applications

• Technology integrates with other applications to
  provide them with improved access non-XML content

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Exegenix Value Proposition

• Exegenix Technology Saves Cost

• Use of Exegenix Conversion System can reduce the
  cost of converting a typical document page by 50
  or more

• Exegenix Technology Saves Time
• Far more efficient than human editors

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Exegenix Value Proposition

• Exegenix Technology Offers Accuracy

• More accurate than human editors.
• Exegenix technology has been designed to be
  extensible.
• Exegenix Technology Offers Improved Access
• Conversion simplified to the degree that it
  becomes feasible to convert all legacy content to
  XML

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Exegenix Value Proposition

• Structure implied via universal presentation
  conventions is identified and converted to XML

Content is precisely identified with no loss or
alteration No reverse engineering of proprietary
file encoding algorithms used or required No hand
tagging or re-keying, so no human errors are
introduced
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Visit Exegenix On the Web

• www.exegenix.com

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Contact Exegenix

• To enquire about the Exegenix Conversion System,
  please contact
• Sales Marketing InquiriesSteve DownieVice
  President, Sales Marketingsteve_at_exegenix.com
• Technical InquiriesRyan GermannProduct
  Managerryan_at_exegenix.com

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