The final blog of our three-part series on content importing introduces a new image extraction tool that has been developed to make documents more manageable, compact and easier to read and review.

This new ability is based on an old Internet standard called the "data URL scheme." This standard sat around unused for over a decade until Google realized it could use it in its Chrome browser to embed images directly into your HTML. Previously, web developers were used to having content, layout and CSS in a single HTML file, but the images had to be stored separately. The data scheme lets you now also embed images into your HTML.

We use this in the data transfer process because it allows you to review your content, including that release thumbnail or bio headshot, as a single piece of information. Open up that file in Google Chrome or now Firefox or even IE9, and you'll see everything. If that's the right player name and headshot, you import that single file, and the HTML and image get saved into our system.

The image below shows a seemingly endless document of data scheme image code. All this code makes this relatively short document difficult to read and hard  to effectively review and revise.

Once that same document was imported into our system using the new image extraction tool, the differences are apparent. The document is more condensed and manageable and can now be easily revised and edited in our article editor.

For those who decide to take advantage of our new bulk importing tool for bios and releases, the image extraction tool will make it easier for you to quickly review mass amounts of imported documents while aiding you in importing and saving your images into our system. Although the images have been extracted and saved as a new file outside of the original document, there will be no need to re-upload the image into the release or the headshot into the bio as the system will automatically save the images in the proper location.  

Our suite of new importer tools will give users a more easy and efficient way to import archived content. The releases importer uses meta tags to allow for a more accurate and complete data transfer. The bio importer uses simple HTML structures for easy data review. Lastly, our new image importer uses data schemes to embed images directly into your HTML to make it more compact and manageable. By using these tools, importing archived content becomes a whole lot easier!