Documill Visual Search - Use Case

Media Archives

Documill Visual Search enables printed content to go online

Documill Visual Search offers an ideal fit for those who want to make their PDF-based newspaper and magazine archives go online. Documill believes that the key ingredients for award-winning archive service come from:

User experience is the king - the drives the usage, and keeps the existing users happy.
Power of the brand is more than good name recognition. In fact, visual identity of the content is one of the key factors behind content reliability, familiarity and high perceived value.
Availability and accessibility - online available always, and without any special applications.
Searchability - content made available online must be searchable. Users have learned to use full-text search capabilities to help them to find what is relevant for them.

Equip your media archive with superior user experience

The archive service should keep the look and feel of the printed magazine. Documill approach preserves this despite of totally different distribution format and method than the content was originally designed for.

In addition Documill Visual Search provides:

Page-level search accuracy within a publication.
- » Printed publications are linear collections of content, and the context must always be evident for the reader.
- » Search term highlighting within a page, directly into page visualization.
Browser-only approach
- » Bandwidth friendly, optimizes network data traffic.
- » Allows users to download and focus on part of the content, without having to download the whole issue.
- » No need for downloading, installing and maintaining plug-ins. Very important for security-aware corporate users.
Fast access to archived content
- » Allows taking a quick look.
- » Multiple pieces of content (issues, publications, pages) visible simultaneously.
- » Supports the approach of content discovery by glancing around.