Transformation of PDF Textbooks into Intelligent Educational Resources

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 semanticallyannotated 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 workflow are presented.

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