TextPipe Pro 8.3.3

TextPipe Pro 8.3.3 is an industrial strong text transformation workbench for data converting and mining, electronic publishing and website maintenance. It's a powerful text-processing utility that combines 270+ conversion, transformation, extraction and report mining operations on multiple text or binary files. Update web sites using multi-line EasyPattern or perl-style regular expression search and replace, and Unicode find and replace with patterns.

This tool can control precisely where changes occur by restricting changes to line or column ranges, XML and HTML tags and attributes, CSV- or tab-delimited fields, lines that match or do not match a pattern and combinations of these (e.g. find and replace just inside the ALT text of an IMG tag, or columns 20-40 of lines 1-10). Data mine mainframe reports, and convert foreign computer systems files between mainframe EBCDIC fixed-length formats and DOS, Macintosh and Unix line-feed formats.

Convert between Unicode formats and 150+ other text encodings such as Japanese Shift-JIS and Chinese BIG5. Filters can split or join files, add or remove lines or columns, remove blanks from the start or end of each line, remove blank lines, remove HTML tags, remove duplicate lines, add line numbers, sort, word wrap, convert between ASCII and EBCDIC, OEM and ANSI, Unicode and ANSI, remap ANSI (8 bit) or Unicode (16 bit or 32 bit) characters, extract email addresses and URLs, expand or contract tabs, remove binary characters, pad or truncate or force lines or fields to a set width, generate word lists and much more. TextPipe can be scripted or automated from the command-line. It even handles files LARGER than 2 GB. Generate and then modify XML, CSV, tab-delimited or fixed width database extracts. User-defined filters can be written in VBScript or JScript.

TextPipe comes with an Engine that can be embedded in other applications. Audit logs keep track of the filter lists run, files modified and changes made. More than 200 example filter files are included along with a comprehensive online manual. Winner SIA "Best Application" award

Major Features:

1. Process Information From Anywhere: TextPipe handles both text and binary files with equal ease. File formats you can convert and extract data from include:
   
   • HTML, XML and other structured documents from the WWW
   • Fixed length, CSV (Comma-delimited), Tab-delimited, Pipe-delimited, *-delimited files
   • Unix, Macintosh, Mainframe and PC/Windows end-of-line formats
   • ASCII, ANSI, Unicode and EBCDIC files
   • Inside Zip files, and the new Microsoft Office 2007 formats DOCX, XLSX, PPTX
   • Rich Text Files (RTF)
   • Files with tagged data fields
   • Downloaded text files (e.g. news retrieval, financial, real estate)
   • EDIFACT, HL7 and other structured formats
   • Spooled print files
   • OCR output
   • Screen scrapes and captures
   • Structured and unstructured reports of any size or dimension
   • Email header, body and attachments (in conjunction with ResumePipe)
   • Framemaker MIF files and more.
   
   
2. Lightning Fast Search and Replace: TextPipe offers a variety of powerful searches:
   
   •  Exact search (including multi-line and binary character search)
   • 'Sounds-like' search
   • Fuzzy search (great for finding typing errors)
   • Pattern or wildcard search
   • Search/replace lists and more.
   
   
3. Manipulate Precise Sections of Text: TextPipe can restrict changes to line ranges, column ranges, tab-delimited fields, CSV-delimited fields, lines matching a pattern and more. You can combine restrictions, for example, to alter a specific line and column range. You can also apply further text manipulations to the Replaced Text in a Search and Replace operation, such as by making the Replacement Text UPPERCASE.
   
   
4. Unlimited Power:TextPipe's frees you from worrying about memory size or disk space limitations:
   
   • TextPipe performs an unlimited numbers of manipulations in a single pass (e.g. 100 different search and replace operations)
   • There is no limit on file size - so you can process files larger than 10 Gigabytes
   • All files are processed without using temporary disk space - only the result file is output
   • TextPipe handles an unlimited number of files (e.g. corporate websites).
   
   
5. Manipulation Functions
   
   
6. VBScript and JScript Custom Filters: Extend TextPipe by writing custom filters using industry-standard VBScript, JScript or other scripting languages. Use this to perform database lookups, insert data in Excel or Word or other non-standard processing. TextPipe can also call external programs to manipulate parts of the text.
   
   
7. Automation and Integration:
   
   • TextPipe can be scheduled for automated lights-out processing, with audit logs tracking every step.
   • TextPipe can be automated via the command line (using the Command Line Wizard) or scripted via a COM interface, allowing TextPipe's text processing power to be controlled by programming languages such as Visual Basic, C++ and Delphi.
   • TextPipe can export filters to VBScript, JScript or a web page - which can be customized to make TextPipe even easier for less technical users by presenting a simplified GUI.
   • TextPipe integrates directly into Windows Explorer as a right-click menu for ease of use, and with a growing list of third party products.
   
   
8. Easy To Learn and Use: TextPipe includes many facilities to help get you started:
   
   • Filter Wizard to walk you through creating your first filters
   • Extensive tutorials and lessons introduce you to key concepts
   • Test your filters without affecting key data files
   • Debug Filter to see what is happening
   • Comment Filter to document your process
   • Library of more than 200 example filter files
   • Online FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
   • Online demonstrations for common tasks
   • Online discussion group where you can ask questions and talk with other TextPipe users

Enhancements:

• Logging changes,
  
• Set global variables on command line etc

Requirements: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 Server, Vista and Vista 64.