Overview

McGraw-Hill Education is a learning science company that provides customized educational content, software, and services for pre-K to postgraduate. Educational publishers are focusing on developing digital learning ecosystems to increase engagement for each learner while improving outcomes for all. As a leading provider of education books worldwide, McGraw-Hill Education wanted a robust and proven platform to convert its existing library of textbooks into fixed-layout format eBooks. Hurix Digital used its award-winning, cloud-based epublishing solution, Kitaboo, to convert PDF versions of Maths and Science pages for K-12 grade students into the fixed-layout ePUB format eBooks.

Business Challenges

  • Convert 80K-100K pages in English and Arabic in a tight time frame of 3-4 weeks.
  • Arrange 40% of the PDFs before converting them into the fixed- layout format.
  • Fill loopholes in 30-40% of the pages that had issues, such as missing pages, incorrect trim sizes etc.
  • Add components, such as cover, front matter, interior content, glossary pages at different stages of the conversion process due to missing content.
  • Modify and reconvert pages to meet the client specifications.
  • Continuous change in workflow and project implementation strategy to meet the changing priorities of the client.

SOLUTION AND APPROACH

KITABOO Digital leveraged Kitaboo, and the skills and expertise of its in-house technical team to provide McGraw-Hill Education fixed-layout format eBooks for Maths and Science pages for K-12 grade students.

The solution involved:

  • Customized Kitaboo AR functionalities to smoothly convert the pages into fixed-layout eBooks in English and Arabic.
  • Manually adding sections/pages that were not provided insequence in the PDFs, again within the existing timeframe.
  • Fully automating processes to convert PDFs into ePUBs
    Implementing batch processing to convert multiple pages at a single instance.

Powered by its proprietary, cloud-based content platform Kitaboo, KITABOO Digital was able to automate all its processes and complete the momentous task of converting 100k pages into fixed-layout eBooks within a time frame of 4 weeks.

A core team of developers wrote special code to automate all processes to convert PDFs into ePUBs.

Since there were several changes in the project brief along the way, KITABOO assigned a coordinator to streamline communication and provide daily status reports and help overcome all roadblocks to on-time delivery.

Given the constantly changing goal posts and content inputs, the project development teams had to work in three shifts to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with no compromise to quality

Benefits

  • Enabled the client to expand reach of its current product offering in global markets.
  • Enabled creation of eBooks with the same look-and-feel of the input PDF files.
  • Empowered the client to provide highly intuitive, engaging, efficient and effective digital experience to its end-learners.
  • Enabled students to access eBooks anywhere, anytime on multiple browsers and devices.