Aignesberger Software GmbH

In previous versions of WebSite-Watcher, PDF, Word and Excel documents were always handled as binary files. It was not possible to monitor the content of these files nor to highlight text changes. Version 5.0 already introduced a way to monitor the text content of PDF files, but you had to install a tool from another vendor to get it working.

WebSite-Watcher 5.1.0 Beta-7 comes with 3 new plugins to make content monitoring of these documents possible by default:

1. PDF documents

WebSite-Watcher has now a new, integrated PDF Plugin to monitor text changes in PDF files, the additional tool “pdftotext” is no longer required but still supported. New in the internal solution is that WebSite-Watcher also shows a screenshot of each page:

2./3. Word and Excel documents

Absolutely new is the possibility to monitor Microsoft Word and Excel documents by content. Two new Plugins will convert Microsoft Office files into web pages, then they can be checked and handled as normal web pages and WebSite-Watcher is able to highlight changes in the text. The only requirement is that Microsoft Office 2003 or higher must be installed on your PC.

Automatically use these Plugins

All three Plugins can be assigned to new bookmarks automatically (enabled by default, can be turned off in the program configuration). If you disable this option, then the appropriate Plugin is suggested in the Browser Information Bar.

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