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Readly makes hundreds of magazines readable – and ready for audio

Readly brings together thousands of newspapers and magazines from around the world in one single app. To improve accessibility and the reading experience, they wanted to present content in a more flexible format – while also preparing it for further use, such as audio.

Challenge: Structuring hundreds of PDF issues – fast and in parallel

• Readly needed a solution that could:
• Extract and structure content from print-optimized PDFs
• Enable responsive reading in the app, especially on mobile devices
• Deliver articles in a format suitable for further processing, like text-to-speech
• Handle everything at short notice and at scale

Solution: Webarch + scalable production infrastructure

With Webarch’s content structuring tools, Readly transforms its PDF magazines into HTML-based articles.

These articles can then:

• Be displayed in article view in the Readly app – fully responsive for phones and tablets
• Be processed in Readly’s systems, for example to generate audio files
• Be produced in large volumes, thanks to an infrastructure that scales with demand

Result: Structure, speed and new possibilities

Thanks to Webarch, Readly has:

• Built an efficient pipeline to structure hundreds of titles
• Improved the reading experience with responsive article layouts
• Enabled new uses for content – like audio generation

Visit Readly: www.se.readly.com