Benefits

"When we started using Tansa, it was as if someone switched on the lights in the editorial office." BERGENS TIDENDE Håkon Glatved-Prahl, Chief Sub-Editor

The spelling checkers most people use today 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.

Tansa is an advanced, automatic proofing system that can process tens of thousands of words a second. Not only will it correct nearly all spelling, text usage (style), punctuation and hyphenation errors in the blink of an eye, it also ensures that everyone in an organization follows a common set of rules.

And, perhaps even more importantly, because it can automatically catch so many different kinds of spelling, style and punctuation mistakes, it actually reduces the amount of time employees spend cleaning up errors in text.

For example:

• Tansa users have documented up to a 90 percent reduction in the number of printed typographic errors.


• Tansa clients have seen as much as a 40 percent increase in the efficiency of their copy editing process after implementing Tansa.

Try to calculate the amount of time that is wasted correcting common spelling and style errors, or the time each employee wastes looking up words, searching for names or asking a co-worker for spelling and style advice? These processes often waste a great amount of time, which is time organizations cannot afford to lose today — whether it’s because they are short on resources, or because they are working on a tight deadline.

For newspapers, magazines, and other media companies, this is a well-known problem. Because of increasing workloads and a lack of time available for training, these companies face an eternal battle against often embarrassing errors.

In addition, news providers have extensive writing guidelines that they must follow when creating their content. Not only must a publication adhere to its own local style rules, it must often also follow the guidelines set by organizations like The Associated Press or The New York Times. This can be a tremendous burden when working on a strict and costly deadline.

In order to help solve this problem, Tansa Systems has formed partnerships with companies like The Associated Press, The Canadian Press, Oxford University Press, Norsk Telegrambyrå (NTB) and Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå (TT). These organizations work directly with Tansa Systems to help ensure that content from their standard reference sources are available to our customers.

For some examples of the types of errors that Tansa can fix, click here.