Archive for March, 2010

New Plugin: IFilter Text Extraction

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.1 Beta-2) has a new Plugin to extract text content from proprietary file formats (eg. PDF, DOC, PPT, …) via the IFilter system. IFilter is the system used by Windows Search to search through files in proprietary formats. IFilters are usually installed by Office Suites, PDF readers, etc.

This plugin supports any file format for which you have an IFilter installed and can typically be used to extract text from PDF files, Powerpoint files, Word files, Open Document files, or even from Open Office files (*.sxw, *.sxc, …) if you have Open Office installed.

The IFilter plugin is not assigned automatically, you have to assign it manually in the bookmark properties (Advanced + Plugin).

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Using Save-As to archive documents to LWA

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Local Website Archive V3 introduced a new feature to archive PDF documents that were saved to a pre-defined folder (either manually or via a Virtual PDF Printer).

This feature has now been enhanced in Local Website Archive 2010 (10.0 Beta-2) to also import HTML documents and text files.

If an application has a Save-As command to save a document in HTML or TXT format, you can save it into a pre-defined folder (eg. C:\LWA). When you start Local Website Archive, all Html/Text documents from that folder will be imported and archived. This pre-defined folder can be configured in the program configuration of Local Website Archive, I personally use C:\LWA (it’s fast to enter and easy to remember).

This method provides an easy way to archive documents from e-mail clients (eg. Outlook), news readers, etc.

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New bookmark columns

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Have you ever tried to find bookmarks with specific configurations, for example all bookmarks that have the “Send Mail” feature enabled? Or bookmarks that have a Watch filter defined? Ouch, it was always a pain because you had to check the properties of each bookmark manually to get this information.

WebSite-Watcher 2010 (10.1 Beta-1) introduces new columns that will help to show such an information in the main window.

1. New column “Added”
This column shows the bookmark creation date. It was often suggested by our customers and is now finally available.

2. Three new custom columns
More powerful are three custom columns that can be used to show selected bookmark properties. To configure these custom columns, simply open “Options + Columns” in the main menu, then click the tab “Custom columns”.

The button “…” allows you to select the bookmark property that should be displayed in the custom column. For example alternative e-mail addresses which are entered in the “Send Mail” bookmark action.

If a custom column contains text information, then the Find feature will also search these columns. If the content of a custom column is larger than 250 characters, then only the first 250 characters will be displayed.

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