KR20200102310A - System for authoring e-book - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an e-book conversion authoring system. According to the present invention, the e-book conversion authoring system includes a memory in which a program for converting an e-book for a commercial digital document is stored and a processor executing the program. The processor extracts a media object contained in the commercial digital document, and provides an interface for inputting alternative information of media objects, so as to convert and perform packaging into a standard format for accessibility e-books with the alternative information inserted.

Description

E-book conversion writing system {SYSTEM FOR AUTHORING E-BOOK}

The present invention relates to an e-book conversion authoring system.

E-Book refers to a publication in which the contents of a book are processed and stored in digital information, and EPUB (Electronic Publication), an official standard for e-books, is the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), which is now merged with W3C. ), was established to replace the pre-2007 open eBook standard.

According to the prior art, in order to insert replacement information for supporting accessibility for the disabled, the converted e-book must be read by a writing tool, the location and content of media content requiring replacement information must be checked, and the replacement information must be directly inserted. There is a hassle.

The present invention has been proposed to solve the above-described problem, and converts a commercial digital document into EPUB standard format, extracts media content requiring replacement information insertion in the conversion process, and additionally inserts replacement information into the extracted media content. The purpose of this is to provide an e-book conversion authoring system that can be packaged with.

The e-book conversion authoring system according to the present invention includes a memory storing an e-book conversion program of a commercial digital document and a processor for executing the program, wherein the processor extracts a media object included in the commercial digital document, and replaces the media object. By providing an interface for input, it is characterized in that conversion and packaging are performed in a standard format of an accessible e-book in which replacement information is inserted.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to easily convert and author an e-book in the form of a commercial digital document that has been previously produced into an e-book that is an EPUB standard form and provides accessibility to persons with disabilities, so that a book previously published as a commercial digital document It is possible to service the disabled in a short time.

The effects of the present invention are not limited to those mentioned above, and other effects that are not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the following description.

1 is a block diagram showing an e-book conversion authoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 and 3 illustrate a part of an accessibility e-book standard according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 shows an accessibility e-book conversion function according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a flow chart showing a method of writing an e-book conversion according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The above-described objects and other objects, advantages, and features of the present invention, and methods of achieving them will become apparent with reference to the embodiments described below in detail together with the accompanying drawings.

However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments disclosed below, but may be implemented in a variety of different forms, and only the following embodiments are for the purpose of the invention to those of ordinary skill in the art, It is only provided to easily inform the composition and effect, and the scope of the present invention is defined by the description of the claims.

Meanwhile, terms used in the present specification are for explaining embodiments and are not intended to limit the present invention. In this specification, the singular form also includes the plural form unless specifically stated in the phrase. As used in the specification, "comprises" and/or "comprising" refers to the presence of one or more other components, steps, actions and/or elements in which the recited component, step, operation and/or element is Or does not preclude addition.

Hereinafter, in order to help those skilled in the art understand, the background to which the present invention is proposed is first described, and then an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

EPUB (Electronic Publication), the official standard for e-books, internally uses xhtml or DTbook (XML standard created by DAISY consortium) to create internal text and document structure, and uses part of CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) to create document frame and Make the form

XML (eXtended Markup Language) is used for list, table format, and EPUB metadata, and various files are grouped and distributed in a zip file format.

EPUB specifies in EPUB Accessibility and Accessibility technique 1.0 in connection with EPUB standard that the distribution of alternative information to support the accessibility of the disabled is included in the EPUB document, so it is possible to provide an equal reading environment for the disabled and the non-disabled through the same EPUB document. Let's do it.

Substitute information to support accessibility for the visually impaired includes explanatory data on visual content such as images and tables included in e-books for the visually impaired, and textual explanatory data on content such as video and audio for the hearing impaired. Substitute information should be produced and included along with the inserted content in the book writing stage.

A technology for converting an electronic document created in a commercial digital document (PDF, etc.) not an e-book standard format into an e-book standard has been proposed, but according to the prior art, by proposing a conversion tool in the form of collectively converting the document form, In order to insert replacement information for supporting accessibility for the disabled, there is a hassle of reading the converted e-book with a writing tool, confirming the location and content of media content requiring replacement information, and directly inserting the replacement information.

The present invention has been proposed in order to solve the above-described problem, and proposes a system and method for authoring a commercial digital document such as PDF into an electronic book format including accessibility information for the disabled.

According to the present invention, a commercial digital document such as PDF is converted into an EPUB standard format, and media content (images, tables, etc.) requiring replacement information is extracted in the conversion process, and replacement information is additionally inserted into the extracted media content. Then, by packaging it in EPUB, it is possible to convert a book published as a commercial digital document into an e-book providing accessibility to the disabled in a short time and provide service.

1 is a block diagram showing an e-book conversion authoring system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The e-book conversion authoring system according to the present invention includes a memory 110 storing an e-book conversion program of a commercial digital document and a processor 120 executing the program, wherein the processor 120 is a media object included in a commercial digital document. It extracts and provides an interface for inputting substitute information of a media object, and converts and packages into a standard form of an accessible e-book in which the substitute information is inserted.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, a commercial digital document targets PDF, but it is possible to convert and author various types of commercial digital documents.

In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to include various document formats that are authored through various word processes and distributed in the form of e-books.

The processor 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention performs commercial digital document analysis, document media content management, media content accessibility information editing, accessibility e-book conversion, and accessibility e-book packaging.

The processor 120 reads and analyzes a commercial digital document (eg, PDF), and extracts and manages media content included in the document.

The extracted media contents are media objects requiring replacement information to be inserted, and include visual elements such as videos, images, and tables.

The processor 120 makes it possible to check the extracted media objects by category through a management tool, and provides a user interface for expressing the media object during the conversion process and inputting substitute information for the corresponding media object. .

The processor 120 inserts replacement information for the media content received through the user interface, and performs conversion and packaging into an accessible e-book standard format including the replacement information.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the processor 120 extracts media content requiring replacement information insertion based on a commercial digital document in a conversion process, inserts additional replacement information, and packages it as an EPUB for the disabled.

When converting a media object, the processor 120 according to an embodiment of the present invention may insert replacement information for the extracted media object through web search.

In addition, it is possible to insert substitute information for a media object in a commercial digital document (eg, when an equation is included in text) through image processing or the use of mag-up language.

2 and 3 illustrate a part of an accessibility e-book standard according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 shows a part of the accessibility e-book standard, and shows the standard of the e-book standard (EPUB 3.X or higher) for inserting substitute information for an image.

EPUB, the standard form of e-book, is based on HTML5 and is composed of xhtml-type documents. To insert image content into the document, the <img> tag is used to specify the location of the image source, and substitute information is'alt 'Insert it in the attribute.

3 shows a part of the accessibility e-book standard, and shows the standard of the e-book standard (EPUB 3.X or higher) for inserting substitute information for a table.

As in FIG. 2, in order to insert table content in an xhtml document, a <table> tag is used, and as shown in FIG. 3, substitute information for the table is written in the <p> tag, and the <table> tag In the'aria-describedby' attribute, the <p> tag ID for which replacement information is written is designated.

4 shows an accessibility e-book conversion function according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, the processor extracts a visual element through analysis of a media object included in a commercial digital document (eg, a PDF document), and provides a user interface for inserting substitute information for the extracted visual element.

Substitute information entered through the user interface is stored together with visual elements, converted into a standard format for accessibility e-books, and packaged.

In this case, as described above, the substitute information input may be automatically input according to the result of the web search for the media object, and may be input according to the user's selection designation for the web search result.

5 is a flow chart showing a method of writing an e-book conversion according to an embodiment of the present invention.

E-book conversion and authoring method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a commercial digital document analysis step (S510), media object extraction step (S520), media object-specific replacement information input step (S530), replacement information storage step (S540), accessibility E-book standard form conversion step (S550) and accessibility e-book standard form packaging step (S560).

Assuming a commercial digital document as PDF, PDF is a file format defined for printing purposes.

In step S510, the document is analyzed through a module that parses and decodes the file structure in the PDF, and in step S520, media elements such as text, images, video, audio, and tables included in the document are extracted.

In step S530, if there is a visual element among the media content extracted in step S520, the corresponding visual element is checked, and the replacement information is input by providing a user interface for inserting the replacement information.

In this case, when there are a plurality of visual elements included in the PDF document, a user interface for inserting replacement information for each visual element is repeatedly provided.

In step S540, when the insertion of replacement information for the visual element in the PDF document is completed, the corresponding visual element and the inserted replacement information are stored.

In step S550, the conversion is performed in a standard format for accessibility e-books, and in step S560, the converted accessibility e-book is packaged in a form that can be consumed through an accessible e-book viewer.

Meanwhile, the e-book conversion and authoring method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in a computer system or recorded on a recording medium. The computer system may include at least one processor, memory, user input device, data communication bus, user output device, and storage. Each of the above-described components communicates data through a data communication bus.

The computer system may further include a network interface coupled to the network. The processor may be a central processing unit (CPU) or a semiconductor device that processes instructions stored in a memory and/or storage.

The memory and storage may include various types of volatile or nonvolatile storage media. For example, the memory may include ROM and RAM.

Accordingly, the method of writing an e-book conversion according to an embodiment of the present invention may be implemented in a computer-executable method. When the e-book conversion and authoring method according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed in a computer device, instructions that can be read by a computer may perform the conversion authoring method according to the present invention.

Meanwhile, the above-described method for converting and authoring an e-book according to the present invention may be implemented as a computer-readable code on a computer-readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording media in which data that can be decoded by a computer system is stored. For example, there may be read only memory (ROM), random access memory (RAM), magnetic tape, magnetic disk, flash memory, optical data storage device, and the like. In addition, the computer-readable recording medium can be distributed to a computer system connected through a computer communication network, and stored and executed as code that can be read in a distributed manner.

So far, we have looked at the center of the embodiments of the present invention. Those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention pertains will be able to understand that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered from an illustrative point of view rather than a limiting point of view. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope equivalent thereto should be construed as being included in the present invention.

110: memory 120: processor

Claims (1)

A memory storing an e-book conversion program for commercial digital documents; And
Including a processor for executing the program,
The processor extracts a media object included in the commercial digital document, provides an interface for inputting replacement information of the media object, and performs conversion and packaging into a standard format for an accessible e-book with the replacement information inserted.
E-book conversion authoring system.

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