Our approach to project management is flexible as every project is unique and requires different planning and implementation as per its technical requirements. With able project managers who facilitate smooth and seamless operations have thorough understanding of the process from concept to production. They effectively ensure that the deliverables qualify the criteria.
From planning to scheduling to monitoring and tracking, our project managers manage all stages of production and communicate withing the team and with the authors, publishers and production editors. The project manager handles
CONTENT ENRICHMENT SERVICE / EDITORIAL SERVICES
2. CONTENT ENRICHMENT SERVICE / EDITORIAL SERVICES
The most important of the editorial process is the Copyediting. Our editors are post graduates and doctorates in their respective discipling and can handle the editing of simplest to the most complex content. Be it the reviewing of manuscript or language polishing or structuring of content our team can do it with ease. The knowledge of the requisite styles and specs helps them to adapt to the requirement and deliver crisp content, making reading an enjoyable experience for the readers. The tasks covered under the editorial segment at Acrux includes
Manuscript preparation
Language polishing
Structuring of content
Copy editing – all levels
Editorial proof reading
Page Composition
3. PAGE COMPOSITION
Typesetting or interior design should be smooth and subtle creating enjoyment, so that the reader is attracted towards reading rather than distracted. Regardless of the medium, whether it be for print or online and Irrespective of the subject matter and category it belongs to, Acrux can create unique and appealing layouts in single or two or four colour and appropriately place the text and pictures to bring an astonishing product , thus helping you to accomplish the mission of creating great reader experience. Our expert team of typesetting specialists create ready to publish files for wide range of publications. The specialities include,
Template creation
Book Interior Design
Artwork Placing
Print ready files
Pitstop Reports
Art & Illustration
4. Art & Illustration
The creative artists are knowledgeable to produce art pieces as per requirement. Whether it be a simple line art or a complex mythological drawing or a cartoon or a map, our graphic designers can deliver accurate and impeccable designs.
With hands on experience in using the designing software’s like Photoshop, Illustrator, Corel Draw and MS Paint, our creative team have handled many anatomical, situational children book art requirements including book covers.
The team is not only skilled at producing fresh pieces of art but also can work on enhancement of the existing images by performing colour correction, relabelling and file format conversion.
Indexing
5. Indexing
To aid the reader in easy retrieval of data, compare and match them with relevant context, the indexers at Acrux perform
Keyword Indexing
Reference Indexing
Data conversion
6. Data conversion
The changing trends and technologies have made this century a digital paradise. Global business environment has become digital friendly. To ensure your presence in the digital space Acrux provides a list of conversion services. The highly trained data conversion specialists can deal with all types of digital conversions predominantly XML and eBook conversion Services, from any input format and have them converted suiting various reading devices and distribution platforms.
XML
Style Sheet Creation
DTD – PubMed, NLM, JATS
Parsing
eBooks
ePUB 2
ePUB 3 (Reflowable &Fixed layout)
Interactive and enhanced eBooks (Read aloud)
Audio, Video and animated eBooks
Scanning & OCR
B/W & Colour scanning using Drum and bed scanners
Data Entry
Online and Offline data Entry
Accessibility
7. Accessibility
Acrux is a proven and able provider of accessibility services, which complies with the requirements and standards of ADA, 508 & WCAG standards. Clients across industries, around the world have used the accessibility and remediation services of Acrux to tackle their accessibility related challenges. With its expert team and innovative accessible platform, Acrux performs document accessibility audits, remediation, and conformance validation and have assisted clients across variety of industry verticals in their need for accessibility. Over the years, we have gained experience and exposure to end to end accessibility services which includes, consulting, training, auditing and remediation.
Our services are not limited to
Document Accessibility executed in line with ADA/508 Compliance
ePub Accessibility Services
eLearning Content Accessibility Solutions
Creation of Interactive Content conforming to Accessibility norms
Creation & Insertion of Alt Text image descriptions
Web Content Accessibility as per WCAG 2.1 guidelines
Accessible Forms, PDFs and other documents
Caption / Transcription for audio
The team at Acrux start with ascertaining the scope of the project after its receipt. The process starts with
Analysis of provided documents or websites and relevant materials for feasibility
Itemising the images accordingly as Tables, infographics, Mathematical drawings, graphical representations etc.,
Devising of the processes and execution model along with the challenges
Scope of the project includes:
Complete analysis of the Source documents
Appropriate tagging
ALT text insertion.
Bookmark Creation
Checking Document Properties.
Validation and reports
With effective and stringent quality control processes combined with the understanding of the requirement, wide range of assistive technologies, are used to check the final product for its compliance with the standard requirements. The technology assists in asserting the method in which a PDF or a document is be tagged or remediated for accessibility. Our test set up includes:
Speech recognition: Dragon Naturally Speaking
Screen readers: JAWS (versions 9 to 2020/Fusion), NVDA
Screen magnifiers: ZoomText (versions 11 to 2020/Fusion), SuperNova, MAGic
The validation process is done with multiple methods to ensure the final product passes through the final Quality audit. It involves
Full Check
Common Look
PAC Version 3.0
Testimonials
When you hand good people possibility, they do great things
Acrux’s competitive advantage and the source of great value to our clients comes not only from our expertise in IT solutions and ITES professional services but from several aspects of our unique business model including an innovative offshore development approach, client-centric account management, business & technology competency centers, and business continuity preparedness. We like having our own targets and achieving them year by year, we are focused, committed, and target oriented.
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Clients Speak
I would like to give my sincere thanks to the Acrux team for their outstanding commitment to our project. The team took the time to thoroughly understand the vision and the requirements of the project, broke it into a comprehensive set of specifications, divided them into clearly defined sprints, and executed each sprint on time or ahead of time. Not only that, the team was also extremely responsive to inquiries and requests during the Complete project, always answering each within 12 hours or less. The weekly calls were always well attended, and every action was tracked and updated until they were completed to our satisfaction. As a result of this dedication and commitment, our Project was finished on time, on budget, and in spec. Each inquiry was handled promptly and professionally. Acrux has been an outstanding partner for our project, and I can wholeheartedly recommend them as a Digital Publishing partner.
We want to express our appreciation for the wonderful job and the excellent service that Acrux IT Services provides to CODEMANTRA on various platforms of publishing.
Acrux is now our knowledge partners for Accessibility, XML and Epub services. Team at
ACRUX is responsive to our needs and changing requirements of the Project. With the
support, help, ideas and dedication offered to us by the wonderful team of Acrux IT Services
we expect more Project to roll.
My experience outsourcing Project to Acrux IT Services was a good one. They handled the process of my project proficiently and professionally. Working with Ravi and his team was a great experience. It was easy communicating with him. He understood what I needed and worked very hard to deliver on time. I very much appreciated the amount of care he and his team put in delivering quality services and ensuring I am satisfied with their work. I would recommend using Acrux IT Services to businesses looking to outsource their development/publishing requirements.
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