Production and accessibility

A11y, AI and alt text

Bloomsbury tried an AI cloud service to generate alt text for the Fashion Photography Archive — 775,000+ images. The quality was too low to use, and the AI itself created a QA burden of its own. A useful…

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ACDCx

ACDCx is Springer Nature’s production automation system, applying AI to typeset, format and prepare manuscripts at scale — built for high-volume open access pipelines.

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FigureTwo

FigureTwo builds web-native scientific figures that are data-connected, accessible and FAIR-compliant rather than static images. Authors upload a dataset and build interactive charts (scatter, regression, etc.); readers can explore individual data points, jump between the chart and the…

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Kotahi AI PDF Designer

The Kotahi AI PDF Designer lets users style scholarly PDFs in plain English — click an element, tell the AI “make the title bold”, watch the live preview. Built on the HTML-first Kotahi platform with Paged.js, Wax and…

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Kriyadocs

Kriyadocs, from Exeter Premedia Services, is a cloud publishing platform covering submission through delivery for journals and books, with AI automating copyediting, formatting and metadata validation along the way.

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Lanstad

Lanstad, developed by Deanta, is a cloud production platform with real-time XML editing, proofing and content transformation, using AI to automate production tasks. Built on Azure microservices with an API-driven architecture.

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