Transformation of PDF textbooks into intelligent educational resources

Isaac Alpizar-Chacon; Max van der Hart; Zef S. Wiersma; Lorenzo S.J. Theunissen; Sergey Sosnovsky

Transformation of PDF textbooks into intelligent educational resources

Isaac Alpizar-Chacon
, Max van der Hart
, Zef S. Wiersma
, Lorenzo S.J. Theunissen
, Sergey Sosnovsky

Utrecht University

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Abstract

The paper presents Intextbooks - the system for automated conversion of PDF-based textbooks into intelligent educational Web resources. The papers focuses on the new component of Intextbooks responsible for transformation of PDF-based content into semantically-annotated HTML/CSS. The architecture of the system, the design of the client application rendering resulting textbooks and a short validation experiment demonstrating the quality of the transformation work-flow are presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	4-16
Number of pages	13
Journal	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume	2674
State	Published - 2020
Externally published	Yes
Event	2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Textbooks, iTextbooks 2020 - Virtual, Online Duration: 6 Jul 2020 → …

Keywords

Adaptive textbooks
Digital textbooks
Educational resources
Intelligent textbooks
Interactive textbooks
Modeling textbooks
PDF to HTML

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