data2check – an online service for checking Word, InDesign and EPUB files for correctness

What is checked?

• Document structure
Check for: unknown styles, incorrect use of paragraph and character styles, used styles for the first paragraph, checking for the correct hierarchy in the document structure 

• Word components
Permit or prohibit: pictures (different formats), text boxes, shapes, charts, non-Word objects, change tracking, comments

• Find and replace rules
Regex support, comment function, also replacement of search term without notification

• XML transformation
Renaming, unwrapping and deleting styles into XML tags

• Exact copy of the document including error comments
• XML version of the document
• HTML check report
• XML report (SVRL)
• DITA
• DocBook

• Publishing company makes quality assurance for its InDesign documents
• Publishing or typesetting companies use the service for their copyediting support
• Authors write their documents according to the style guidelines of the publisher and then the authors can check their documents on their own
• Self-publishers write in Word and transform the documents via XML into PDF/EPUB
• In the technical documentation many documents are also written in Word. Quality assurance can be made for these documents and a later migration to an editorial system can be made easier
• Big companies need migration of large numbers of documents to XML or DITA
• Content Management Systems need to add new features for proofing

• www.data2check.de
Web access with user interface for configuring and testing. Programming skills are not necessary 

• STANDALONE VERSION
Set up the service on a local computer

• API-VERSION
Integration into a CMS for extended configuration and individual customization