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FlippingBook Automation

Quick Guide

Introduction

FlippingBook Automation is a powerful tool for automatic processing and converting of PDFs into interactive online documents. Format is more engaging than PDF, but it takes time and manual work to create it. FlippingBook Automation takes out that tedious work, so customers can create interactive books, magazines, product catalogs and other documents with minimum efforts and make them easy to view online and share. This quick guide is intended to explain the basics of how the Automation program works and walk you through the first steps. We have added some screenshots from the program to help you.

We wish you good luck with your publications!

Basics

FlippingBook Automation product allows to convert digital documents at scale. Its aim is to help document-intensive businesses turn their PDFs into readable and beautiful HTML5 digital documents without manual work.

How it works in 3 steps:

 PDFs are uploaded into the folder monitored by FlippingBook Automation, a "hot folder"  FlippingBook Automation detects the PDF and converts it into HTML5 documents  The output HTML5 files are now ready to be uploaded to the website.

Hot folder is monitored constantly, with just seconds between the PDF loaded to folder and the start of the conversion process.

If multiple PDFs are loaded to the folder they are queued and converted one-by-one with a short pause between each conversion.

Step 1: Install To start using FlippingBook Automation, first install it on your computer:

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Download the FlippingBook Automation ZIP file to your computer. Export the contents of the archive to C: drive so that the path to the folder will be « C:\Batch ». Please use only this folder on the computer. Open the « C:\Batch » folder and double click on « Service » shortcut. Minimize the window, but do not close completely. Double click on «FlippingBook Server » shortcut. FlippingBook Server window allows to add and edit conversion settings and see the conversion process. Enter your login and password. Information about login and password will be sent to you by the sales manager. Otherwise, please email us at support@flippingbook.com with question about FlippingBook Automation access.

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Step 2: Setup Automation program works with several files and folders during the conversion process. All of them are set before conversion process starts and can be edited afterwards. Steps to set up the settings:

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Open FlippingBook Automation and log in Click on the Create Job button. N ame - the name for the set of tasks and settings

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Hot folder — choose or create a folder where you will put the PDF files to convert. For a test you can set it up at «C:\Batch \HotFolder».

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Action after the file is processed — folder, where to put the PDF file after conversion. You can also set to delete them.

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Action if the file failed to process — folder where we put faulty PDFs. It’s rare but still might happen.

Template — file of the template setting, that determine the visual settings of the HTML files.

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Enable SEO — setting that determines if the program adds an indexable file to the HTML files or not.

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Output folder is where your HTML files are stored after the conversion is finished.

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Conversion process Conversion process happens automatically once you put the PDFs to the hot folder. You do not have to monitor this in FlippingBook Automation, but it can be useful to check at first.

Steps to start conversion process:

Once you finished with the settings choose your tasks on the left panel and click the button " Run " to start monitoring the hot folder.

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Copy the PDF files you would like to convert

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Paste the PDF files to hot folder

Conversion will start in a few seconds. Each PDF is shown on the right panel in a separate line. If you click on any PDF you can see the details of the conversion process. When the conversion process is finished you can check the Output folder — each file will be there in a separate folder named after the PDF file name.

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Technical specifications

FlippingBook Server Software  Operating System  Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7,

Windows  Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012,  Windows Server 2008 R2 (SP1) 

.NET

Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 

RAM

4 GB or more recommended 

Network

Internet connection 

Disk Space 

5 GB or more 

CPU

Intel Core i5 / AMD A4-Series or higher (recommended) 

Display

1366×768 or higher 

Input document  size limits

1000 pages and 500 MB per PDF 

Output document  Operating system  Any operating system with a supported browser  RAM 512 MB or more  Network Internet connection  CPU

Single Core CPU 2.0 GHz, or Dual Core CPU 1.5 GHz or higher 

Display

1366×768 or higher 

The most recent version of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox,  Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer (as IE 11 doesn’t support SVG,  the quality of your text in IE can be lower than in other browsers)  or Apple Safari for Mac OS  Safari (iOS 7.0+), Google Chrome and Android Browser (Android  4.0+), Facebook Browser. Page Flipping effect is supported on  iOS 10.0+ and Android (Android 6.0+).

Web browser 

Mobile browser 

Technical specifications 

Format Details 

Input format 

PDF

Output format 

FlippingBook internal format which consists of HTML,  JPEG/ PNG and SVG files. This makes a document optimized  for a variety of mobile devices and provides high quality vector  texts.

Print format 

PDF

Input/output destination

A local or shared folder. 

PDF Conversion  Bookmarks

Bookmarks are extracted from a PDF and converted into an  interactive Table of Contents.  Hyperlinks to external resources, mail addresses and phone  numbers are extracted.  Original PDF fonts are transferred into the final document.  ● Download ● Sound ● Fullscreen

Links

Fonts

Options

Branding

● Company logo ● Company logo placement ● Company logo link ● favicon ● Background image ● Color palette

Conversion time estimates 

Average pages/hour

Average pages/ m on .

Page type vCPU Average

Average pages/day

Average pages/year

pages/second

Plain text 

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1,800

43,000

1,296,000

15,600,000

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1,5

2,300

56,000

1,685,000

20,220,000

Enriched text

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1,200

29,000

864,000

10,370,000

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1,600

37,000

1,123,000

13,480,000

Graphic

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900

22,000

648,000

7,780,000

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1,200

29,000

864,000

10,370,000

Billing All licenses are subscription-based and billed annually.

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