Apryse Innovation Days: Tackling the Tediousness of Proofreading

Summary: The countdown is over and it’s time to announce the Apryse 2024 Innovation Days third-place finisher. In the first blog in this series, we’ll showcase team Launching on Friday and their innovative solution to the tediousness of proofreading. 

At Apryse, innovation is core to what we do, and our Apryse Innovation Days event showcases this commitment. Developers from across our organization are empowered to unleash their creativity, challenging each other to create impactful updates and enhancements to our products. This collaborative effort drives the future of document processing. 

In the first blog covering our recent Innovation Days, we’ll look at our third-place finisher, team Launching on Friday, including Aprysers Anthony Chen, Charlotte Stewart, Elma Khandaker, Songyi Huang, and Wing Lee.

The team presented an AI-powered tool for Xodo that is a real game changer when it comes to dealing with the tedious task of proofreading. Let’s take a look.

We’ll start by defining Xodo.

Xodo is the ultimate one-stop solution for viewing, annotating and working with PDF files across all platforms and devices. Xodo is a powerful tool enabling users to open and edit PDF documents online seamlessly, quickly and easily convert PDFs to formats like Word, Excel or PowerPoint, create PDF documents from JPG and MS Office files, and much more.

Now back to the problem.

Proofreading is a pain! When dealing with long documents, the process can be tedious and even a single typo can be costly. Manually reviewing every word is just something we don’t have time for.

So, team Launching on Friday put their creative heads together to come up with a solution that takes care of the tedious work, enabling users to focus their efforts on other important tasks.

DOQFix is an AI-powered tool built directly into Xodo’s document ecosystem. It scans the document, identifies spelling and grammar issues, and suggests corrections, all in seconds.

This truly is a game changer for a number of reasons.

Using DOQFix is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Open a document in Xodo, activate DOQFix to scan the document, review and accept the suggested corrections, and you’re done.

So far, team Launching on Friday has made this all seem pretty straightforward and easy. But when looking at the journey the team endured to come up with this solution, Songyi Huang had this to say – “I think the biggest challenge came from thinking up the idea of ​​DOQFix itself. Our team members had been struggling to find an idea that was both practical and creative.”

It seems the team was plagued by a bit of creator’s block, but Songyi goes on to say – “After Elma Khandaker suggested that we could make an AI-based auto corrector, we quickly determined the required technology and user flow.”

With an idea in hand, so to speak, the team went to work. “Our team members are very familiar with the Xodo Web platform. Based on the excellent extensibility of its code and our previous accumulation in AI, we were able to quickly develop a prototype for the demo”, Songyi remarked.

After a lot of hard work and dedication, the team was ready to show off their innovative solution, DOQFix, ultimately earning third place in our Innovation Days Challenge 2025.

Great work team Launching on Friday!

We’ve just looked at our first of three teams who truly stood out with their creativity and innovation, designing a solution to a conquer the tedious task of proofreading. Our next blog in this series will showcase team Syntax Squad and their submission for our 2025 Innovation Days. Stay tuned!

Note: The projects covered here and in the other Innovation Days blog posts are not currently in product development. They are prototypes created specifically for this event. If you'd like to request the features you see here, you can fill out this form. Or, feel free to reach out to your CSM directly.