PDF → HTML5 · catalogues · leaflets · e-textbooks

We turn your PDF into an interactive online publication

Digital catalogues, leaflets and magazines connected to your web shop. Interactive e-textbooks with exercises and tests for schools and publishers. Fully responsive – on phones, tablets and desktops.

  • Hosted in the EU
  • No installation, just a browser
Digital magazine displayed on a phone, tablet, laptop and desktop monitor
1,500+
interactive e-textbooks in production
10+
years of TurnPages technology
3–5
working days from PDF to online version
10
languages we can work in

Solutions

Three ways to get your PDF online

Choose how much of the work you want to leave to us. All variants use the same technology and the same responsive player.

FS

Full Service

Send us the PDF, we take care of the rest.

We design a template in your corporate identity, convert the PDF and add links (hotspots), a table of contents and search. Within 3–5 working days you receive a link or a ZIP for self-hosting.

  • Template in your corporate design
  • Hotspots from your list or read from the PDF
  • Hosting with us or a ZIP for you
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DS

Do it Yourself

An online platform where you convert PDFs yourself.

Upload a PDF, pick a template, add contents and hotspots, then publish to a public URL or download a ZIP. Logins for several colleagues and custom templates depending on your subscription.

  • Unlimited publications per subscription
  • Hotspot and contents editor
  • Export straight to AWS S3 / Azure
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EC

E-Commerce

Customers shop straight from the leaflet.

Product overlays with price, description and photos, cross-sell and deep-sell products, dynamic prices and add-to-cart via your shop's API – without leaving the catalogue.

  • Light · Medium · Full depending on integration depth
  • Product overlays with cart
  • Click statistics per product
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Education

Interactive e-textbooks, tests and e-books

The same technology that powers digital catalogues also serves schools and publishers. A PDF textbook becomes a book where pupils fill in exercises and teachers see the results.

E-textbooks from PDF

Hotspots, exercises, notes and shared answers between pupil and teacher. More than 1,500 books in production for Dutch vocational education.

Tests and quizzes

Testing module with questions in JSON, images, several versions of each task and automatic scoring. A test generator for authors.

Gamification

Levels, badges and “superpowers” that keep pupils going. Progress overview for the teacher.

E-books and read-aloud

Electronic books with search, contents and text-to-speech (MP3 via AWS Polly) for pupils with reading difficulties.

School portal integration

Classes, teachers and pupils are synchronised from your portal via API – no manual account creation.

Statistics

Usage overviews of books, exercises and tests for the publisher and for the school.

Features

What every publication includes

Responsive design

A game engine renders pages to the screen size: single pages on phones, spreads on desktops. Swiping always works smoothly.

Custom design templates

No white-label looks. Background, controls, contents and search in your brand's design, with your own fonts and colours.

E-commerce integration

Product overlays, cross-sell, dynamic prices and cart via API. Online-only leaflets without print.

Extensions

Video and audio players (YouTube, Vimeo, your own), forms, surveys, social media. Open architecture and REST/JSON APIs.

Smart analytics

Micro-events – pages viewed, time, products clicked – and A/B testing. Configurable to GDPR and cookie consent.

Flexible hosting

TurnPages CDN in the EU, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure or your own server or intranet. The publication is a pure HTML5 package without server dependencies.

Navigation and search

Table of contents, page index, full-text search, one-click zoom and PDF download – whole or per page.

Apps

The same publication works in the browser and in the WebView of your iOS and Android apps.

References

Publications running on TurnPages

A selection of projects for retail, finance and education in the Netherlands, Belgium and Slovakia.

De Bijenkorf – Magazine · Netherlands De BijenkorfMagazine · Netherlands Zeeman – Weekly leaflet · Netherlands ZeemanWeekly leaflet · Netherlands
bol.com – Toy catalogue · Netherlands bol.comToy catalogue · Netherlands
PLUS – Supermarket leaflet · Netherlands PLUSSupermarket leaflet · Netherlands

Click a cover to open the live publication in a new window.

Uitgeversgroep

Publisher · e-textbooks · Netherlands

More than 1,500 interactive textbooks for vocational secondary schools. Pupils complete exercises, teachers grade and share notes. Classes are synchronised from the school portal via API, with text-to-speech available.

LiberaTerra

Education · tests and e-books · Slovakia

A test and quiz platform for primary and secondary schools, the gamified “Superpowers” app with levels and badges, and interactive e-books (iUčebnica) with their own editorial system.

Emga

B2B catalogue · Netherlands

Product catalogue with hotspots to the web shop, a multilingual version and hosting on the TurnPages CDN.

emga.turnpages.com/catalogus/en/

Every publication in its own design

bol.com catalogue in the TurnPages player
Deutsche Bank Money Expert in the TurnPages player
Brochure Ik bouw betaalbaar in Almere
Cenz magazine in the TurnPages player

How it works

From PDF to online version in three steps

  1. 1

    You send the PDF

    One file with all pages, RGB, no spreads. Add your logo, corporate design and a list of links – or we read them straight from the PDF.

  2. 2

    We prepare the publication

    Design template, conversion, hotspots, contents, search, and e-commerce overlays or exercises where needed. You receive a preview for approval.

  3. 3

    You publish

    A link on our CDN, embedding in your website or app, or a ZIP for your own server. Statistics from day one.

Specifications

Technical requirements

TurnPages player (for readers)
  • Internet connection of 2 Mbit/s or faster
  • Current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari
  • JavaScript enabled
  • Also works in the WebView of iOS and Android apps
PDF for Full Service
  • A single PDF file containing all pages
  • No spreads
  • RGB colour space
  • Not password protected
  • Resolution of at least 150 dpi
PDF for the DS platform
  • A single PDF file, all pages the same size
  • No spreads, no print or crop marks
  • RGB, 150–300 dpi, max. 250 MB
  • Compatible with PDF 1.3 / Acrobat 4, no transparency or blending modes
  • At least 4 pages, even page count
DS platform (for users)
  • Connection of 2 Mbit/s download, 5 Mbit/s upload
  • Current browser, Windows or Mac
  • Firewall/proxy must not block PDF uploads

Technology and partners

We run on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and our own servers in the EU. The player builds on Adobe PDF technology, with hybrid apps for iOS and Android. We have long consulted the Human Media Interaction group at the University of Twente on interface usability.

  • Amazon Web Services
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Adobe Solution Partner
  • Apple Developer
  • Android Developer
  • University of Twente

Contact

Request a demo or a quote

Tell us what you want to publish. We reply within one working day – in English, Dutch or Slovak.

Direct contact

Rendek Holding s.r.o.
Osvienčimská 24
911 01 Trenčín
Slovakia

info@turnpages.sk
+421 911 060 570

Company ID 36784486 · Tax ID 2022395815 · VAT SK2022395815

TurnPages is a product of Rendek Holding s.r.o. The technology is developed together with our sister company Forward Thinking B.V. (Deventer, the Netherlands).

Send us your PDF and we will prepare a trial version.