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From: Jennison Asuncion
Date: Wed, Mar 07 2007 5:40PM
Subject: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversion technology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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Hello,

Thought some here might find this information of interest. Has anyone
tried the tool out?

Jennison


Jennison Asuncion
Co-Director, Adaptech Research Network
http://www.adaptech.org

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Subject: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversion technology
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Riverdocs.com (UK)
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

RiverDocs launches world's first document conversion technology for web accessibility compliance

By Press Release

March 6, 2007

RiverDocs, the document conversion software company, today announced RiverDocs ConverterT - the world's first software solution that enables organisations to quickly and simply convert documents intended for print, such as PDF or Word, into structured, accessible HTML documents. Documents converted using RiverDocs software enable Government and corporate organisations conform to W3C standards and better comply with their legal obligations in terms of Web accessibility for documents.

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From: Robert Yonaitis
Date: Wed, Mar 07 2007 5:50PM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversiontechnology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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Well:

Since HiSoftware has done this for over 7 years and of course other vendors have -- I wonder what they mean by world's first!

Press releases can be silly :)

cheers

From: Tim Beadle
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2007 1:10AM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversiontechnology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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On 08/03/07, Jennison Asuncion < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> RiverDocs, the document conversion software company, today announced RiverDocs
> ConverterT - the world's first software solution that enables organisations to quickly and
> simply convert documents intended for print, such as PDF or Word, into structured,
> accessible HTML documents. Documents converted using RiverDocs software enable
> Government and corporate organisations conform to W3C standards and better comply
> with their legal obligations in terms of Web accessibility for documents.

I might be underestimating the power of the software, but how does it
extract structure from a Word doc or PDF that hasn't been structured?

Tim

From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2007 2:30AM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversion technology
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> I might be underestimating the power of the software, but how does it
> extract structure from a Word doc or PDF that hasn't been structured?

I very much doubt it can, with any accuracy anyway.
Maybe it makes an approximation of implied structure based on certain
text size contained within the document?

However, where tools like this are useful (if they work) there is still
a need for quality control and human assessment. I don't like the sound
of purely automated tools producing rubbish documents (am not implying
that this is the case here).

Garbage in , garbage out.

Josh

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From: Moore, Michael
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2007 6:50AM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's first documentconversiontechnology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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On 08/03/07, Jennison Asuncion < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> RiverDocs, the document conversion software company, today announced
> RiverDocs ConverterT - the world's first software solution that
> enables organisations to quickly and simply convert documents intended

> for print, such as PDF or Word, into structured, accessible HTML
> documents. Documents converted using RiverDocs software enable
> Government and corporate organisations conform to W3C standards and
better comply with their legal obligations in terms of Web accessibility
for documents.

I might be underestimating the power of the software, but how does it
extract structure from a Word doc or PDF that hasn't been structured?

Tim

Perhaps they are using clairvoyance heuristics? After all, we all know
software companies never exaggerate the capabilities of their products.

A little early morning cynicism,

Mike

From: Joshue O Connor
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2007 7:30AM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's first document conversiontechnology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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> Perhaps they are using clairvoyance heuristics?

Can we patent that? :)

Josh

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From: Sandra Clark
Date: Thu, Mar 08 2007 8:30AM
Subject: Re: RiverDocs launches world's firstdocument conversiontechnology for web accessibility compliance (fwd)
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I always say that I missed the computer science class "Reading your client's
mind". Wouldn't mind a class in that.


Sandra Clark
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Training and Consulting in CSS and Accessibility
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