FLAWLESS TEXT IN SECONDS
How is Tansa different?
n Software analyzes text by looking at words in context
n Custom dictionaries are tailored for each installation
n Central, server-based system is used by all content creators and editors
When we started using Tansa, it was as if someone
switched on the lights in the editorial office. We
simply don’t have any typos anymore.
Bergens Tidende
Tansa cleans up your mistakes
Tansa corrects spelling, usage (style),
punctuation, and hyphenation errors
TO ERR IS HUMAN, but even seemingly small errors can damage the
credibility of your printed or digital content. You want your text to be
professional and consistent.
Typographical errors and incorrect use of language can affect your
company’s reputation. A casual attitude toward orthography may arouse
suspici­ons of lack of competence in other areas. To put it another way: If
your employees can’t spell, what else are they getting wrong?
Wouldn’t it be nice if a software application could help correct misspelled names, style violations, and identify inappropriate language? The
problem with the simple “spell-checkers” that most people use today is
that they are only capable of finding basic mistakes. A more advanced
kind of text proofing application is needed to help content creators and
editors do their jobs more efficiently.
That is why the Tansa Text Proofing System was created.
Unlike any other spell-checker you’ve ever worked with, Tansa proofreads your content by looking at the words in context, making it capable
of checking not only the spelling of words but also the usage of words
and the style of your writing.
or·thog·ra·phy, n.
1. The art or study of
correct spelling according
to established usage.
2. The aspect of language
study concerned with
letters and their
sequences in words.
3. A method of representing
a language or the sounds
of language by written
symbols; spelling.
Source: The American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by
Houghton Mifflin Company.
TANSA UNDERSTANDS that each publication has its own unique writing style. That is
why the dictionaries and text processing rules on the Tansa Server are tailored to the
preferences of each Tansa customer.
Tansa can correctly deal with the following:
MISSPELLED WORDS:
accommodate
accommodate
TYPOS:
the
the
SPELLING CHALLENGES:
paraphernalia
paraphernalia
COMPOUND PHRASES:
now
now
CHOICE OF WORDS:
news conference
news conference
COMMON GRAMMATICAL ERRORS: run it’s course
run its course
TRADEMARK NAMES:
Quark Xpress
PROPER NAMES:
Condolezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
ALTERNATIVE SPELLINGS:
capitalization
capitalisation
DIACRITICAL MARKS:
tete-a-tete
tête-à-tête
PUNCTUATION:
“Nuts”, he said.
“Nuts,” he said.
HYPHENATION:
threshold
threshold
QuarkXPress™
Tansa has given us the ability to streamline the
workflow, we don’t have to triple-check anymore.
B ay A r e a N e w s G r o u p
Fewer errors
Tansa users have reduced their published
copy editing errors by as much as 90 percent
Tansa’s unique
abilities enable
it to effectively
check, not only
the spelling of
proper names,
but the style and
consistency of your
writing as well.
TANSA PROVIDES QUALIT Y ASSURANCE for all the content published by your
company.
No matter if it’s a 30-inch news story, a letter to an advertiser, a report for the
board, an email to your boss, or text for the website. No matter if you have ten,
or ten thousand, employees. No matter how busy your people are, or how unsure
they are of their spelling, Tansa provides error-free text in seconds.
Tansa’s unique abilities enable it to effectively check not only the spelling of
proper names but the style and consistency of your writing as well.
Tansa is a server-based solution. This has several advantages over client-based
spell checkers:
1) Tansa takes advantage of the substantial processing power available in server
hardware to analyze the text in sophisticated ways.
2) Every­one in the company uses the same centralized proof­reader application.
All of your employees use the same dictionary, the same spelling rules, and
the same terminology. This helps ensure that everybody follows the company’s
editing guidelines.
Because of this, our customers have documented substantial reductions in the
number of errors that appear in their publications.
Third-Party
Stylebooks
Some third-party
stylebooks and spelling
references can be licensed
for use within a custom
Tansa dictionary.
Please contact a Tansa
representative to find out
if your preferred reference
source can be purchased
and used as part of a
Tansa solution.
HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THE AMOUNT of time you and your colleagues spend proofreading and correcting text errors? Or the time you
waste looking up words, searching for names or asking a co-worker for
help? These things take more time than you think, which is time you often
don’t have — whether it’s because you are short on resources, or because
you’re working on a tight deadline.
This is a well-known problem for print publishers, web companies and
others that produce large bodies of text. Because of increasing workloads
and a lack of time available for training, these companies face an eternal
battle against often embarrassing errors.
Tansa’s ability to check text in multi-word phrases allows the system to
correct a wide variety of spelling, usage (style), and punctuation errors.
Think of it as an electronic editing assistant.
Because the software can automatically catch so many different kinds of
mistakes, it actually reduces the amount of time your employees spend
manually cleaning up errors in text. With Tansa performing so many of
the basic correction tasks, your employees are able to focus on the substance of the content.
In a modern news cycle, the time that elapses
from event to published news is short, so we
depend on an efficient proofing tool ... Tansa
improves our end products without delaying the
publishing process.
N e ttav i s e n
Save time
(and money)
Tansa customers have seen dramatic increases
in copy editing productivity, with employees working
as much as 40 percent faster
The longer you
use Tansa, the
more the system
learns about
your unique
writing style and
the better the
software gets at
spotting errors
and suggesting
corrections.
TANSA CAN PROCESS VIRTUALLY UNLIMITED AMOUNTS of text and correct thousands of words a second. All you have to do is press a key, and the text is corrected
almost instantly.
Valuable time is saved. Frustration is reduced. And the result is nearly perfect.
Our users have documented dramatic increases in productivity, with copy editors
working as much as 40 percent faster than before.
In addition, Tansa is not just a tool for editorial users. Mistakes in classified and
display advertising are not only embarrassing, they have an impact on a publication’s bottom line. To help prevent that, advertising departments can use Tansa to
correct basic errors in ad copy.
And, the longer you use Tansa, the more the system learns about your unique
writing style and the better the software gets at spotting errors and suggesting
corrections.
There are no alternatives to Tansa. Tansa is a tool to
help us see the errors that we don’t see on the screen.
B e r g e n s av i s e n
How Tansa works
Tansa is a server-based solution that integrates with your
existing content creation, editing and layout tools
System Integration
Tansa is being used with many
different editorial workflow
systems, including:
nAdobe
nAtex
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CCI Europe
nDTI
n Eidos Media
nEscenic/Vizrt
nInfomaker
n NEWSCYCLE Solutions
n Nexus IT & Comm. Solutions
nQuark
nSAXOTECH
nTieto
nvjoon
nWoodwing
In addition, most content
management systems that use
the editing and page layout
applications listed on the right
(see “System Availability”) are
compatible with our solutions.
TANSA IS AN ADVANCED text proofing system that can process thousands of
words per second. Not only will it correct nearly all spelling, usage (style),
punctuation and hyphenation errors in the blink of an eye, it also ensures
that everyone in your organization follows a common set of rules.
Open systems
Tansa is an open system, enabling it to work with most of the word processors, database managers, layout programs and content management systems
in use today. It is easy to use, requires almost no training and can usually be
installed without modifications to your current system setup or workflow.
Tansa is perfectly adapted to a world where parallel publishing on several
platforms is becoming the norm. It works equally well with print, web and
electronic publishing and can be customized for any technology.
Customized dictionaries
Each dictionary is individually tailored for every customer. Prior to installation, we analyze a large volume of your company’s published text. This helps
us compile a custom-made dictionary incorporating specialized termino­lo­gy,
proper names, a particular language style, etc. And over time this custom dictionary is frequently updated by language experts at Tansa Systems — and by
your company’s Tansa dictionary manager.
Tansa is a modular solution, comprised of software,
data and services built around the Tansa Engine.
This structure provides users with a greater degree of
flexibility on how they implement and adapt their system.
System Availability
THE TANSA TEXT PROOFING SYSTEM is made up of several server and
Tansa S er ver :
client software components.
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Tansa Server
Tansa System Clients:
The Tansa Server is the application that processes all Tansa proofing requests. All communication between the server and the client
applications is based on a Web Service.
Tansa Administrator
The Tansa Administrator is the system management tool used to
maintain and modify the installation’s custom dictionaries, as well as
to keep track of software and dictionary updates.
Tansa Clients
The Tansa Clients are tools that allow Tansa to “plug in” to the
editing and layout applications that you already know and trust. The
Tansa Clients work from within these applications to send your text
to the Tansa Server and then provide you with an interface to view
and edit Tansa’s results.
Tansa Systems supplies the plug-ins/extensions needed to use Tansa
with the most widely used content creation and editing applications.
Other third-party plug-ins are also available.
Tansa Statistics
Tansa maintains detailed accounts of usage: most common errors
and words that are ignored, problematic words, phrases and style
issues. All of this information can be reviewed at any time through
your Tansa Statistics website.
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Microsoft Windows Server 2003™and newer
Adobe InCopy™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
Adobe InDesign™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
Apple Safari™ (Mac OS X) available 2014
AP ENPS (Windows)
Google Chrome (Windows, Mac OS X)
Microsoft Internet Explorer (Windows)
Microsoft Outlook (Windows)
Microsoft PowerPoint™ (Windows)
Microsoft Word™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
Mozilla Firefox™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
QuarkCopyDesk™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
QuarkXPress™ (Windows, Mac OS X)
Tansa Java client and Web client
nTinyMCE
Available Languages
nDanish
nDutch
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English (Australia, Canada, UK, USA)
French (Canada, France)
n German (Austria, Germany, Switzerland)
n Norwegian (Bokmål, Ny­norsk)
nPortuguese available 2014
n Spanish (South America, Spain, USA)
nSwedish
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Tansa users are
unanimous in their
praise: It’s not just
another product –
it’s something that
makes a real and
tangible difference
to their workflow.
Tansa allows our reporters and editors to focus on what’s really
important: creating great content and publishing it quickly. It’s
an essential tool that helps us be first with breaking news in a
competitive news market.
The Seattle Times
Tansa has proved to be extremely useful, especially at the end of
the night. Tansa has made some big catches especially on those
last minute errors that were inadvertently added on the page.
Bay Area News Group
We’re very happy with Tansa... our editors say they can tell when
a story has been checked in Tansa and when another spelling
checker has been used.
The Chronicle of Higher Education
It speeds the process up. The proofreaders can focus on the
content. The result is a better product in the end.
Cappelen Damm
S E E M O R E T E S T I M O N I A L S AT W W W. TA N S A . CO M
Tansa is a linguistic safety net that catches typos and
incorrect names. It’s a splendid tool for anyone who is
concerned about correct language.
Kommunal Rapport
Our customers
Tansa has customers on five continents
Tansa’s solutions
can be purchased
directly from Tansa,
or through one of
our select editorial
and document
workflow solution
providers.
Since 1995 Tansa Systems has delivered enterprise text proofing and
hyphenation tools to a variety of organizations in several countries.
Tansa is currently being used by:
nNewspapers
nBroadcasters
nMagazines
n Government agencies
n Wire services
nCorporations
n Internet publishers
n Nonprofit organizations
Tansa has built its reputation by enabling these groups to reduce the
number of errors in their documents and improve the overall efficiency
of their content creation process.
Today Tansa’s customer base has spread over five continents: Asia,
Australia, Europe, North America and South America.
Our customers include:
n AMEDIA (Norway)
n The Wall Street Journal (USA)
n NRK (Norway)
n The New York Times (USA)
n Gyldendal Norsk Forlag (Norway)
n New York Magazine (USA)
n The Economist (UK)
n Ritzaus Bureau (Denmark)
n Financial Times (UK)
n Clarin (Argentina)
n Telegraph Media Group (UK)
n China Daily (China)
n The Times of India (India)
n The Toronto Star (Canada)
n The Hindu (India)
n Postmedia Network (Canada)
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Fax:
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Email: [email protected]
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USA
Phone: (941) 552-7886
Fax:
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