Feature list of Text Filterer
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Snippet collections: manipulating
and data presentation
- Classical three-paned Explorer-like interface with ability to easily
browse for folders, switch between hierarchically arranged snippet
collections, view a list of snippets and read individual snippets
at the same time
- Manipulating snippet collections is as easy as usual files (copying,
moving, deleting, etc.)
- Tabular data presentation for the list of resultant snippets including
both predefined and custom columns with the ability to sort them in
ascending or descending order
- Flexible file scope - defines the text source for a snippet collection,
including setting up directories, file masks and date/time filters
- Predefined columns - hold standard information about file name,
file path, folder name, file last modified date/time, and snippet
size. Yet another predefined column virtually represents a snippet's
full text providing with the full text search capability
- Additional predefined columns holding file attributes such
as the title, the author, the subject, the keywords, and the comments/description
- The ability to define an unlimited number of custom columns
(data fields) of textual, numerical, date/time or currency data types
using regular expression scripts - new way of composing regular expressions
which makes the task much more easier than ever!
- Building a snippet collection is fast and easy
- Optional automatic rebuilding a snippet collection on its first open
Searching
- The ability to search in both local and network documents located in shared
network folders
- The ability to search in ZIP and other archives in the same manner
as in ordinary folders
- Text Filterer efficiently searches even the bulky snippet collections
with the total volume of hundreds of Mb
- By default, search results are sorted by hits - the number of keyword
entries found in a snippet - showing most relevant results first
- Easy creation and storing with a snippet collection an unlimited
number of multicolumn filters intersecting filtering conditions for
individual columns, either custom or predefined
- Keyword-based filtering criteria for textual columns (including
full text search) and criteria based on values of the respective data
types for numerical, date/time and currency columns - possibility
for the latters to filter out values by their ranges
- Searching for exact and proximity phrases is supported
- The ability to save search results to a tab-delimited text file
which is understandable by spreadsheet or database applications such
as Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access
- The ability to copy (save) resultant files to a chosen folder with
the option to convert them to plain text files preserving original
text layout
- Customizable localized word-formative character sets with ability
to include or exclude certain categories of characters such as letters,
digits or additional punctuation and turn on or off the case sensitivity
- Extremely fast multicolumn filtering (including full text search)
based on the built-in powerful indexing and search engine - enables
instant switching between filters to examine various aspects of a
snippet collection contents
- Managing column indexes is fully automated - no need to bother about
creating or manipulating them!
- Extremely fast building column indexes - perhaps, the fastest in
the industry!
- Highlighting and navigation in the Snippet
pane by keywords found
- Word-based and string-based incremental search while in the Snippet
or Common definitions panes
Supported file formats
- Provided that MS Word is installed on your computer, Text
Filterer is able to utilize its capabilities for searching in files
whose formats are supported by MS Word such as DOC, DOT, WRI and others!
- Provided that MS PowerPoint is installed on your computer, Text Filterer
is able to utilize its capabilities for searching in PPS, PPT and POT files.
- The internal RTF converter makes it possible to search within
RTF documents
- The internal XLS converter makes it possible to search within
Excel documents. The user has the option to search for data either by entire files
as usual, or selectively by Excel columns and rows.
- The internal HTML converter makes it possible to ignore unneeded
information inside html-tags. Alternatively, if you need to find data
inside tags you have the option to treat html as source
- The internal PDF converter makes it possible to search within
PDF documents
- The internal Unicode converter makes it possible to search
within Unicode files
- The full list of supported image types is as follows: BMP, DIB, EMF,
FAX, GIF, ICO, JFIF, JPE, JPEG, JPG, PCX, PCC, PDD, PNG, PSD, PSP, RLE, TIF, TIFF, WMF.
- The following archives are currently supported: ZIP, RAR, MHT and CHM.
- The temporary files dramatically improve performance making a search
in files that requires conversion as fast as in plain text files
Regular expression scripts
- Innovative script approach to writing regular expressions
that are extensively used throughout the application. The task of composing
a regular expression is now dramatically simplified by using meaningful
names and plenty of predefined commonly used definitions!
- Open architecture of regular expression scripts gives the
user the ability to add his/her own common definitions according to
his/her current or future needs
- Convenient interface for working with regular expression scripts:
immediate finding the definition of the variable at cursor, the history
of recently found definitons, the text to try with the current script
and more!
Locale-specific features
- Text Filterer is supplied with more than 50 localized versions
of ready-to-use common definitions scripts taking into account regional
differences in the character sets and formats of numerical, date/time
and currency values for countries and languages of the following language
groups:
- Western
- Eastern European
- Baltic
- Cyrillic
- Greek
- Turkish
- The ability to adjust locale dependent parameters of the common
definitions scripts from within GUI - useful for fine tuning an existing
locale or when defining a new one
Other features
- Separately customizable fonts for the snippet text, highlighted
keywords, scripts and trial text
- Context-sensitive on-line help system
Supported operating systems
- This version of Text Filterer works under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7.
It doesn't support Windows 3x/95 and NT earlier than 4.0. Working on
Windows NT 4.0 requires Service Pack 6
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