The eXtyles Transition Team is highlighting third-party solutions that may be of interest to eXtyles customers as they explore alternative workflows. While our team has not fully vetted and does not endorse any third-party offering, we have communicated with a variety of vendors who provide tools and services that may align with eXtyles customer requirements. Many thanks to the team at Ictect for providing the information below. Click here to return to the eXtyles Transition Resource Hub overview.
Ictect
Business Overview and Relevant Offerings
Ictect brings Intelligent Content and Artificial Intelligence to your workflows with tools available on most desktops, such as Microsoft Word. We focus on improving publishing workflows by providing a better way to professionally edit, transform, and publish to multiple formats. We are a proud Microsoft Partner.
icTools, our flagship product with Microsoft Word and Office 365, is a software solution for document creation, formatting, compliance, automation, XML, and more. Like eXtyles, icTools is integrated within Microsoft Word and is used to create JATS, BITS, and STS compliant XML.
The links below will give more industry specific detail regarding icTools. Look for the “Learn More” link for each product for a deeper level of detail.
Key Features and Functionalities
icTools supports structured content by analyzing a document’s structure semantically and then automatically tagging it with JATS XML (or other XML content models such as STS, BITS, DITA, etc.). Specifically, icTools intelligently tags front matter, references, table, figures, equations, and inline elements. It checks for compliance with style guides and then formats and publishes the JATS content to PDF from Word and creates HTML, ePub, and XML.
Please see the following videos relevant to document structuring:
Ictect’s Editorial Assistant is a product designed to assist editors in Microsoft Word with their routine editing tasks. Using ChatGPT and Intelligent Content in Microsoft Word, it provides an editor-friendly interface to help you with your tasks. icTools also offers features to support bibliographic reference and in-text citation checking and editing.
Ictect ICS (intelligent Content Server) for Journals is a stand-alone cloud-based service that automatically tags JATS XML to journal documents. Simply upload Microsoft Word documents, and ICS for Journals automatically tags and delivers both a tagged Word document and a JATS XML file. (This software can also be offered as an on-premises service.)
See how the Intelligent Content Server tags well-formed Word documents with JATS:
Watch how the Intelligent Content Server tags a Word document and highlights issues, and how the Word document can be easily edited and retagged within Microsoft Word:
Customization Capabilities
While icTools offers many editorial and XML conversion features out-of-the-box, the software can be customized to very high degree including customizations for organization-specific:
- Styles
- Compliance checks
- XML conversion specs
- Cleanup rules
- Features
Deployment and Usage
The software is available as a SaaS product for different platforms.
- Intelligent Content Tools (icTools): Microsoft 365 Word Plugin for Desktop
- Intelligent Content Apps (icApps): Microsoft 365 Word Plugin for Mac and Word Online
- Intelligent Content Server (ICS): Web-based software
- Intelligent Content API: REST APIs
Pricing Model
Ictect is happy to offer a traditional Perpetual/Support and Maintenance as well as the newer Annual Subscription pricing models.