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WebAlchemist: A Web Transco ding System for Mobile Web Access in Handheld Devices Yonghyun Whang a , Changwoo Jung b , Jihong Kim a , and Sungkwon Chung c a School of Computer Science Engineering, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, Korea b Korea Software Development Institute, IBM Korea, Inc., Seoul, Korea c Ubiquix Co. Ltd., Seoul, Korea ABSTRACT In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of WebAlchemist, a prototype web transcoding system, which automatically converts a given HTML page into a sequence of equivalent HTML pages that can be properly displayed on a hand-held device. The WebAlchemist system is based on a set of HTML transcoding heuristics managed by the Transcoding Manager (TM) module. In order to tackle difficult-to-transcode pages such as ones with large or complex table structures, we have developed several new transcoding heuristics that extract partial semantics from syntactic information such as the table width, font size and cascading style sheet. Subjective evaluation results using popular HTML pages (such as the CNN home page) show that WebAlchemist generates readable, structure-preserving transcoded pages, which can be properly displayed on hand-held devices. Keywords: transcoding; mobile web access; hand-held devices; mobile Internet 1. INTRODUCTION With the exponential growth of mobile communications along with the pervasive use of web in everyday tasks, there exists a strong need for mobile web access from various hand-held mobile devices. However, the current experiences of accessing HTML documents (designed for desktop PCs) from hand-held devices are very unpleasant ones because of large