e-Publishing

AGS is a premier in e-Publishing industry with high quality professionals in all segments of the Publishing Industry. We have Delivery Centers that is co-located across several regions of the APAC.

Here are the extensive list of services AGS is providing in the e-Publishing Industry

Data Capture
•     Image àTXT
•     PDF à DOC
•     PDF à SGML
•     PDF à EDGAR ASCII/HTML

Form Processing
•     PDF à Fillable Forms

HTML/XML: Conversion from Hardcopy /Image/PDF to following formats
•     DocBook
•     NLM
•     NIMAS
•     EDGAR-HTML
•     SCORM-HTML
•     Case XML
•     Dictionary

Healthcare Services
•     Cash Posting
•     Charge Entry
•     AR Calling
•     AOMS

Music Engraving
•     Full Score
•     Miniature Score

Prepress
AGS offers a comprehensive range of services for publishing; in particular we are specialized in handling various types of books and scientific / technical / medical journals. We follow a structured XML workflow system for both conventional and online publishing. Our software and R&D experts always concentrate on innovation and provide automated solutions for each project. In addition to this, we handle publishing and prepress related services as mentioned below:
•      Translation
•      Copyediting
•      Artwork
•      Typesetting
•      Project Management
•      Indexing

Translation
AGS can handle the translation of below-mentioned combinations with in-house language experts:
•      English à Portuguese
•      English à Spanish
•      English à all Indian Languages (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Hindi, etc.)
•      Portuguese àEnglish
•      Spanish à English
•      Indian languages à English

Copyediting
AGS has a highly qualified and experienced team of copyeditors who have rich experience in all levels of copyediting(Level1, Level2, and Level3) in STM and Trade Books and Journals.

Artwork
Our Artwork expertise includes
•      Image editing (Hair masking, Path creating)
•      Color corrections
•      Book/Journal cover designing
•      Situational Art (Concept art for school/college books)
•      Logo creation/designing
•      Scanning(Black/color)
•      Anatomical art(Creation art)
•      Prepress checking and imposition creation
•      2DAnimation
•      Web designing
•      Character designing
•      Disk Conversion
•      Image Redraw
•      Image Re-labeling

Typesetting
AGS handles a wide range of books and journals from low complexity pagination levels to heavy complexity free style design projects. We have the capability to work on all the latest publishing softwares (Arbor text (3B2), Adobe InDesign, Quark Xpress, Adobe Framemaker, etc.) used for typesetting needs. We also can work on any customer specified product if suitable for the project. Find below the different work flows we can handle
•     First XML First work flow as per as signed DTD
•     Last XML work flow (Post Conversion)
•     Trade books
•     School books (Pre School, K1 to K12, and Higher Education)
•     STM books
•     Journals work flow
•     Multilingual typesetting

Project Management
We handle Full Service Project Management that covers the stages from copyediting to delivery of the printer file that also includes Publisher and author management services.

Indexing
Our ability to handle all types of indexes is due to the indexing services provided by our subject matter experts, who have a vast knowledge on creating professional indexes.

Quality control
We have a fool proof quality checking process which will ensure that each and every delivery is error free. Below are the checking mechanisms we have:
•     Workflow management system (to ensure process adherence)
•     Document Compare(XML compare, PDF compare)
•     Manual proofreading (for scanned inputs)
•     In-house QC tool(to detect style errors, link errors, font errors, and tag errors)
•     Online checklist (integrated in our workflow management system)

Workflow – Revises and Final Proof

Customers benefit from AGS's expertise at all of the following stages in the product life cycle:

•     Conceptualization

•     Design

•     Prototyping

•     Development

•     Implementation

•     Enhancements

•     New product releases

 •   Maintenance and support

We provide turn key solutions that take into account the current business situation and environment as well as the likely future needs. Apart from developing the solution, we also provide training and support.