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Feature Summary
TextPipe Lite is perfect for even the most complex set of search/replaces, such as small websites.
TextPipe Standard is very good for most programming tasks, and also for writing custom filters in VBScript and Jscript.
TextPipe Pro has all features you need for converting mainframe data, for connecting to and extracting databases, and for web data mining.
Full Feature Comparison Chart
This chart lists the feature differences between TextPipe Standard, TextPipe Lite and TextPipe Pro. TextPipe Run Time is equivalent to TextPipe Pro, but without editing capability.
We provide an upgrade path from TextPipe Lite to Standard to Pro. If you have trouble deciding which version of TextPipe fits your needs, please contact us.
| Feature | Lite? | Standard? | Pro? |
| Core features | |||
| Visual drag and drop mapping | • | • | • |
| Save and reuse conversions | • | • | • |
| File-for-file compatible with other versions (Lite/Standard/Pro) | • | • | • |
| EasyPatterns | • | • | • |
| Shred a file (overwrite its contents) | • | • | • |
| Search and replace with exact match, pattern match (both Perl and egrep), sounds-like, edit-distance, Brief and MS-Word options, extract option | • | • | • |
| Pattern matching sub-expressions | Up to 10 | Up to 10 | Up to 99 |
| Multi-file, multi-folder | • | • | • |
| Files of unlimited size (larger than 2GB) | • | • | • |
| Filter wizard | • | • | • |
| End of line conversion between DOS/Mac/Unix etc | • | • | • |
| Remove blanks and remove extra white space | • | • | • |
| Add left margin, add right margin, add header, add footer | • | • | • |
| Add line numbers | • | • | • |
| Comment filter to document your workflow | • | • | • |
| Restrict changes to line or column ranges | • | • | • |
| Restrict changes to HTML/XML elements, attributes and between tags | • | • | • |
| Remove binary characters | • | • | • |
| Detailed audit logs of changes to each file | • | • | • |
| Import search/replace lists, search/replace list filter | • | • | • |
| Windows Explorer integration, customize shell extensions | • | • | • |
| Developer API | |||
| Command line API for integration with other programs | • | • | • |
| Scripting API for integration with other programs | • | • | • |
| Schedule/automate runs (via windows scheduler) | • | • | • |
| Filtering capabilities | |||
| Fixed width to Delimited Output Wizard | • | • | |
| Restrictions - matching or non-matching lines (used for processing database extracts and website logs), each line in turn | • | • | |
| Restrict to filename - allows for file renaming using search/replace | • | • | |
| Restrict to files based on their filename | • | • | |
| Restrict to blocks of lines | • | • | |
| Move, copy, remove and restrict to delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc) | • | • | |
| Move, copy, remove and restrict to columns | • | • | |
| Debug filter to help get your filter correct | • | • | |
| Remove HTML/XML elements, attributes and tags | • | • | |
| Convert CSV to XML, CSV to tab-delimited | • | • | |
| Convert Tab-delimited to XML, Tab-delimited to CSV | • | • | |
| Case changing filters - UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, rAnDOM CasE | • | • | |
| Randomize lines | • | • | |
| Reverse each line | • | • | |
| Reverse line order | • | • | |
| Add columns, add bytes | • | • | |
| Word wrap | • | • | |
| Center text, right justify text | • | • | |
| Remove matching lines/retain matching lines, useful for processing web site logs and other log files | • | • | |
| Remove duplicate lines/count duplicate lines | • | • | |
| Remove backspaces | • | • | |
| Split and merge (join) files | • | • | |
| Sort (all types and options) | • | • | |
| Single-byte Character maps | • | • | |
| User defined filters written in VBScript/JScript and other scripting languages | • New! | • | |
| T-Filter (copy output to a new stream of filters) | • | • | |
| Unicode functions | |||
| Unicode maps, save to/load from Excel, CSV and Tab-delimited formats | • | • | |
| Convert Tabs to Spaces, Spaces to Tabs | • | • | |
| 144 Unicode conversions filters from single byte, double byte and multi byte code pages | • | • | |
| OEM to ANSI, ANSI to OEM | • | • | |
| Unicode Remove BOM, Swap word order, make Big Endian, make Little Endian | • | • | |
| Restrict to UTF-8 files, Restrict to ANSI, UTF-16 and UTF-32 files | • | • | |
| Other | |||
| Convert from Microsoft Excel to CSV | • | ||
| Convert from Microsoft Word to text | • | ||
| Convert from PDF to text | • | ||
| Extract email addresses | • | ||
| Mainframe copybook functions | |||
| Mainframe Copybook Wizard and Filter | • | ||
| ASCII to EBCDIC, EBCDIC to ASCII | • | ||
| Remove and restrict to Byte ranges | • | ||
| Secondary output filters | • | ||
| Sub filters - record blocks | • | ||
| Other | |||
| Extract filter | • | ||
| Extract URLs | • | ||
| Remove email headers | • | ||
| Unscramble (ROT13) | • | ||
| Hex/MIME/UU/XX/HTTP email attachment encoding and decoding | • | ||
| Link to external filter file | • | ||
| Text To Word List filter | • | ||
| Pad to width/force to width/truncate to width | • | ||
| Resolve backspaces | • | ||
| Remove start or end of file (Unix head/tail) | • | ||
| Remove line range | • | ||
| Remove ANSI codes | • | ||
| Remove all | • | ||
| Run external filter (.exe) | • | ||
| Add text side-by-side | • | ||
| Hex/decimal dump | • | ||
| Character maths | • | ||
| Convert IBM Drawing characters | • | ||
| Repeat file | • | ||
| Export filter to clipboard/export command line to clipboard | • | ||
| Export to JScript, VBScript and web pages | • | ||
| Query databases via OLE DB/ODBC to XML, CSV, fixed width or SQL INSERT script format | • | ||
| Feature | Lite/Web? | Standard? | Pro |
