Data Conversion

Guideposts

Guideposts

Guideposts is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing hope, encouragement, and inspiration to millions across America and the world. They accomplish this through their popular magazines, innovative programs, electronic publishing, and Web site. Guideposts demonstrates the capabilities of true multipurpose publishing.

PocketBible Development

PocketBible Development: Laridian

Scribe works closely with Laridian to develop books for their platform. Scribe has converted books for numerous publishers, including Thomas Nelson, into Laridian format.

The Biblical Archaeology Review CD-ROM Archive

BAR Archive 1975-2005

Because Scribe never creates a one-off project, this project can be continuously repurposed. Originally, created for Libronix format, this corpus is now available on the Web, and in custom publications. Scribe's approach assures your publications can be repurposed in the future.

Well-Formed Document vs. XML Workflow

Every project that Scribe undertakes goes through three stages:

SGML

SGML, or Standard Generalized Markup Language, is the parent of many markup languages. SGML was originally designed to enable machine-readable text to be used across large enterprises. It is rigorous enough to allow the tagging of complex documents, while flexible enough to allow for multitudes of use. Since its inception, Scribe has developed tools that are based in SGML. While others are overwhelmed by the complexity of SGML, Scribe fully understands its use and value.

Project Management

Most think of our Well-Formed Document Workflow as the key to Scribe's success in providing publishing services. While our workflow does help us become more efficient, we would be less successful without our hands-on approach to project management.

The same management that Scribe utilizes internally is available to all of our clients. We provide project management, project development, and production management services to ensure that your projects are successful.

Collaborative

The purpose of Scribe's services is to assist our clients in efficiently publishing their content. To that end, Scribe has developed a number of services to support efficient workflow, multipurpose publishing programs, and to augment our clients' expertise. These services enable publishers and others to streamline production and make better use of technology. This helps our clients to work more efficiently, increase revenues—thus, be successful in today's competitive market.

Scribe's collaborative services take three forms:

OCR

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used to transfer printed material into electronic text. Through OCR, print can be converted into ASCII text, word processor documents, desktop publishing systems, database files, HTML and other mark-up systems. One issue that arises with OCR is that programs often produce inaccurate text that is unacceptable for publisher's needs.

Web Sites for Publishers

Make the most of your publications by using the Web to publish, distribute, and sell your works. Scribe offers complete Web development, including Web publishing, design, hosting, and implementation of your Web site. We can augment your product with e-commerce, subscription management, and content management systems. We can assist you with migration onto the Web, database organization, and multipurpose set-up.

Scribe's OCR, data conversion, and markup services can be employed so that you can publish your backlist on the Web.