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Text Filterer version 1.6
Copyright (c) 2004-2006 Edwardsoft
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CONTENTS
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Overview
Advanced features
  Chopping document files into snippets
  Creating user-defined columns
What's new in this version
  New features added
  Bugs fixed
Supported Operating systems
Installation
Uninstallation
Registration
Contact information
          
OVERVIEW
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Text Filterer is an advanced full text search utility for Windows.
With Text Filterer, you can instantly search for single words, partial 
words, Boolean word combinations or exact phrases within hierarchically 
organized collections of documents.

Classical Explorer-like interface allows you to easily switch between 
found documents viewing their contents in the preview pane, and navigate 
through the found entries forward and back. Search results can be 
additionally narrowed by conditions imposed on document name, location, 
date/time, size, title, author, subject, etc.

You create search queries in the form of persistent filters that are 
accumulated and stored by Text Filterer with a collection so that you 
can reuse them in different sessions. Switching between filters gives 
you an effective way to explore the contents of a collection.

In addition to plain text files, Text Filterer internally supports RTF, 
HTML, XLS, PDF and Unicode. Provided that MS Word is installed on user's 
computer, Text Filterer can utilize its capabilities for searching in 
DOC, DOT, WRI and others file types.

A search result is presented as a multicolumn table in which documents 
are rows and their attributes are columns much like Windows Explorer 
does. Column data of a search result can be saved to a tab-delimited text 
file for later processing with a spreadsheet or database application.
Alternatively, resultant documents can be copied to a chosen folder with 
additional option to convert them into plain-text files.

Text Filterer has built-in support for working with multilingual texts.

ADVANCED FEATURES
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Chopping document files into snippets
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If you have such document files that each contains a series of similar 
text snippets either separated from each other by a certain character 
sequence or limited by distinguishable boundaries, you can make them 
units of your searches instead of entire files. See online documentation 
for details.

Creating user-defined columns
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If your collection consists of documents/snippets having distinguishable 
pieces of information of the same regular structure across the collection, 
you can make Text Filterer search inside those pieces of information only.
You do this by creating user-defined or custom data fields which can make 
your searches much more selective. See online documentation for details.

Full feature list of Text Filterer can be found in online documentation.

WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION
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Text Filterer 1.6
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 * MS Excel files are made searchable. You can search either by entire 
   files, in the same manner as with any other file types, or, 
   alternatively, what is specific to Excel files, selectively search by 
   Excel columns and rows. In the latter case, search results that come 
   from many Excel files are presented by columns and rows in one view as
   if they came from one file. You have the ability to apply sophisticated 
   multicolumn filters to column data in fact using Text Filterer as the 
   data analysis tool. This can be particularly useful when working with 
   a collection of similarly organized Excel files.

Text Filterer 1.5
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 * The application has changed its name from AdScan32 to Text Filterer.

 * PDF file format has been supported. The user can now search PDF files 
   for both full text and file attributes such as Title, Subject, Author, 
   and Keywords.

 * Copy resultant files feature has been added. The user can now copy 
   (save) files that he/she has as a search result to a chosen directory. 
   While copying, the user has the option to convert original files into 
   plain-text copies preserving original text layout.

 * Unicode files have been made searchable.

 * The following minor improvements have been made:

    o Snippet Pane's new popup menu items, Select All and Copy, to select 
      and copy text into clipboard.
    o Interruptible progress display while iterating through deep nested 
      directories when building a snippet collection.
    o Last rebuilt in (hh:mm:ss) label on the General tab of the Parameters 
      dialog box to indicate time interval within which a collection was 
      last rebuilt.
    o Default disk space for temporary files was increased to 500 Mb.

 * The following bugs have been fixed:

    o Abnormal enlarging the af file of a snippet collection as the number 
      of filters grew was fixed. The error had happened under Windows 2000 
      and XP.

    o More stable work with temporary files has been achieved. Temporary 
      files are now not deleted if Text Filterer is abnormally terminated.

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Text Filterer works under Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP. It doesn't support 
Windows 3x/95 and NT earlier than 4.0. Working on Windows NT 4.0 requires 
Service Pack 6.

INSTALLATION
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Start FiltererInstall16.exe and follow instructions.

UNINSTALLATION
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 1. Go to the Control Panel -> Add or Remove Programs.
    This will open the "Add or Remove Programs" dialog box.

 2. Select the Text Filterer item in the list, then click "Remove" 
    button. This will launch the Text Filterer uninstall program. 

Note that uninstall removes all files under the application root folder
including any temporary and user collection files. If you wish to keep 
them you should make the backup copy of them before uninstallation.

REGISTRATION
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Text filterer is installed as fully functional trial version. You can 
freely use it during the evaluation period of 30 days since its first 
launch, after which the software will stop functioning. To continue 
using it, you must register it.

A single user license now costs $29 USD. In case of more than one user 
wish to use Text Filterer, a separate license is needed for each 
individual user.

If you decided to buy Text Filterer:

 1. Start Text Filterer. Nag-screen will open. Click the "Buy and get 
    registration key" button, or if Text Filterer is already running,
    on the Help menu, click Registration | Get registration key.
    This will bring you to the Web site of Text Filterer reseller. Follow 
    instructions presented there. 

 2. You get your registration key by e-mail after payment.

 3. On the Help menu, click Registration | Activate registration key. 
    This will display the "Registration of Text Filterer" dialog box.

 4. Enter your registration key by copying it from the letter body, 
    and then pasting it in the respective pane of the dialog box.

 5. Press OK and restart Text Filterer to put the registration key into 
    action.
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
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Your opinion of Text Filterer is extremely important for us. Any 
suggestions and comments as to improvement of Text Filterer, bugs found, 
etc. are welcome. Feel free to contact us at:

E-Mail:   support@edwardsoft.com
Web site: http://www.edwardsoft.com 

Thank you for choosing Text Filterer!
