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Text Filterer version 1.5
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, 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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New features added
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 * The application name has been changed from AdScan32 to Text Filterer. 
   While it was not a simple decision, we think the new name is more 
   suitable as exactly reflects the main idea of the application.

 * PDF file format is now supported. You can search PDF files for both 
   full text and file attributes such as the title, the subject, the author 
   and the keywords. To extract text from PDF files, Text Filterer uses 
   PDFConverterX, fast and accurate component from SoftInterface 
   (http://www.softinterface.com). We would like to express here our 
   gratitude to this company for an excellent opportunity to include 
   PDFConverterX into Text Filterer!

 * Copy resultant files feature is added. You can now copy (save) files 
   that you have as a search result to a chosen directory. In addition, 
   you have the option to convert resultant files into plain-text files 
   preserving text layout of original documents. 

 * Unicode files are now understandable by Text Filterer

 * The following minor improvements are 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 size for temporary files was increased to 500 Mb.

Bugs fixed
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 * 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.

 * 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 FiltererInstall15.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
============
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 costs $39 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!
