Gears.IFilterHelper 1.0

Gears.IFilterHelper 1.0 helps you to extract text. Superficially simple as it may sound, this task becomes a real problem when the program should efficiently work with a large number of document types and formats. Writing your own components may require too much time and efforts, which otherwise could have been invested into improving the program core and general optimization. There are many extractors available on the market for each document type, but their aggregate cost may by far exceed your budget for this aspect of your application. If you are looking for an affordable, stable, easy-to-use and elegant solution for text extraction in .NET environment, make sure you don’t miss Gears.IFilterHelper!

Based on a proprietary technology by Microsoft Corp. – IFilters – and a corresponding API, Gears.IFilterHelper greatly facilitates and expedites tasks related to extracting text from a variety of sources, from familiar Word documents to Adobe PDF files and much, much more. The goal and motto of Gears.IFilterHelper developers was to turn the complexity of IFilters API into the transparency and intuitive approach implemented in Gears.IFilterHelper, focus on the most important and demanded areas of functionality.

Major Features:

1. 100% C#, CLSCompliant Library
   
   • Small size - about 60Kb
   • Compatible with .Net 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 versions.
   • Visual Studio 2003,2005,2008 support
   • Wide range of C# and VB.Net samples available.
2. Text Extraction
   
   • Extracts text from files
   • Automatically detects installed IFilters
3. IFilters support
   
   • Works with any well-written IFilters
   • Also supports Adobe PDF IFilter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0 for text extraction from PDF files from .NET

Enhancements: Initial release

Requirements:.Net Framework 1.0 or later