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Still manually identifying issues in your Word documents?
Following strict guidelines for how Word documents should be formatted is time-consuming, manually intensive and typically not centralized.
It is difficult for authors to ensure all the regulations are followed while also focusing on the content of their documents.
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Many of your PDF conversion issues originate in the Word document.
Many PDF conversion problems are caused by issues originating in the source Word documents. Most of these issues require the document to be updated and reviewed again.
By improving your Word quality checks, you will save time and reduce the risks in your PDF conversion process as well.
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Authoring involves many repetitive tasks.
Authoring and preparing content for use in a submission involves many manual checks and time-consuming repetitive tasks. Ensuring consistency across hyperlinks, tables of contents, tables, headings, etc. all consumes a lot of time.
The number of manual tasks required means authors and submission content preparation teams spend more time focused on formatting the document that should be used on the actual content.
Check for errors in Word documents and fix them automatically.
DocShifter can automatically check your Microsoft Word documents for compliance (regulatory or corporate) issues, and automatically fix many technical, formatting and styling errors.
This saves you time, reduces the risk of non-compliance, and significantly increases the consistency in PDF renditions for later stages in your submission content preparation.
Reduce the pain of regulatory submissions
Check the Microsoft Word documents for issues with hyperlinks, headings, paragraphs, tables, style alias, bookmarks, comments and many more.
Avoid authoring mistakes.
Focus on content creation, not styling
Instead of checking and editing Word documents for hours, you can focus on creating the content instead.
Let DocShifter automatically check and fix Word documents for styling and formatting issues.
Enable a much-improved conversion process to PDF
The majority of PDF conversion failures are caused by inconsistencies and authoring issues in the source Word documents.
Automatically check and fix your Word documents to ensure accurate and compliant (with company and external regulations) PDF files.
Reduce risks and strengthen compliance
Using decentralized Word plug-ins and desktop tools will only introduce more risks and slow your authoring process down. With DocShifter, you can accelerate and automate many of your existing validation and quality checks processes.
Submission ready PDF conversion
Once your Word documents are checked and fixed, use DocShifter to generate submission-ready PDF renditions. Simplify the process of generating the final PDF files for inclusion in regulatory submissions.
Integrate with your existing systems
Either through native connectors or Rest API, pull Microsoft Word documents, check and fix errors and store the fixed documents in desired systems.
Free FDA PDF format specifications checklist
To help you out in your submissions to US FDA, we prepared a free checklist. This free FDA PDF specifications checklist can help you reduce risk of non-compliance in your submission content preparation for FDA.
Check and fix Microsoft Word documents for a wide range of compliance issues.
Empty paragraphs
Check if there are any un-necessary empty paragraphs in your Word documents
Incorrect section numbering
Check if your headings (including numbered sections) are out of sequence or include white spaces
Table fits to page
Check if your tables are accurate: default font size, fit the page, header row not repeating, etc.
Internal hyperlink with no target
Check if all hyperlinks have targets
Font size checks
Make sure that font sizes in tables are set correctly
Images
Check that images are correctly set to be in-line with surrounding text
Unused bookmarks
Check for any unused bookmarks in the Word file
Internal hyperlink target mismatch
Check for issues with the target of internal hyperlinks
Hyperlink to external content
Check that the document does not contain any links to external content including web links
Comments
Ensure no comments remain in the source Word document
How does automated Word checker and fixer work?
Connect your systems
Connect DocShifter to all the systems where your Microsoft Word content is stored. Either through native connectors, or using the Web Services API. For more information on the integrations, please visit our integrations page.
Check and fix Microsoft Word documents
DocShifter automatically identifies issues in your document and fixes them if desired. A detailed summary report and/or fixed document are generated.
Output and report
The corrected Microsoft Word output is then stored directly in the desired DMS, RIM system, EIM platform, folder or other systems via web services. You will receive a clear report of the fixed issues, as well as the outstanding non-compliant elements.
Frequently Asked Questions
Automated Word checker and fixer is a DocShifter module, that allows Microsoft Word documents to be checked and fixed for styling and formatting errors.
Automated Word formatting allows your Microsoft Word documents to comply with internal and external standards.
DocShifter can handle more than 300 input formats. These input file formats include but are not limited to: Microsoft Office and text file formats (such as DOC, DOT, DOCM, DOCX, DOTX, RTF, HTML, TXT etc.), mark-up file formats (such as HTML, XML, CSS, XSL, XSLT etc.), PDF formats (PDF, ODFA etc.), compressed file formats (.tar, .gz, ZIP file with text files, ZIP file with on PDF, Microsoft Offices etc.), image file formats (JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, RAW, PSD, DXG and DWG etc.).
For an extensive list, please contact us with your questions.
DocShifter has native integrations with OpenText Documentum, Veeva Vault, Microsoft SharePoint Cloud, Generis CARA, Lorenz Docubridge, File Systems, Dropbox and FTP.
It also supports any other system that allows Web Services API connections, such as IBM Filenet, Box, Alfresco, etc.
If your content repository isn’t represented on the Platform -> Integrations page, please drop us a note at info@docshifter.com. We will be happy to investigate your question.
DocShifter subscription pricing is server, volume and functionality based.
To find out more about pricing, please visit our Pricing page and request your estimate.
Yes of course. We thought you were never going to ask.
There are multiple options:
– Hand-held demos with your own content.
– A dedicated environment that you can use to upload files to. Where you can configure your own workflows.
– On-premise trial installations, so you can test quality and performance within your own infrastructure.
Compliant, fast, automated and scalable
file format conversion for the regulated enterprise.
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