Arcanum Development offers data migration and conversion services since its early days. We successfully accomplish creation of further editable, easy to process electronic data even in cases when data arrives on paper, or magnetic tapes of the 70's, mainframe cartridges or on some other "exotic" data carrier, and in very incoherent format.
We have processed and compared data in fifteen European languages, we provide data conversion to Word, XML, SGML or plain text. Also, we migrate textual data to Excel, Access other database managers, Folio Infobase, or Microsoft Sharepoint, for purposes of translation or integration according to the client's requirements and existing system. We undertake preparation and checking of data (e.g. consistency checking) in multiple languages. We convert text or graphic data from different sources to a common form - during one of our previous projects we converted data from many countries into a common system for purposes of systematic archiving of industrial designs.
We worked out a document conversion methodology and the necessary technology based on XML/XSL, for the automatic hyperlinking and conversion of well-made Word documents to ready HTML pages.
In year 2000 we started the work of converting the legal documentation of the European Patent Office to well-structured - DOC4Net compliant - Word files. These files are paper publication ready and can be converted to XML with a custom tool developed by Arcanum Development. The XML files can be converted to top quality HTML pages using XSLT technology.