TextPipe Lite is really only for very basic text
search/replace, like for simple websites.
TextPipe Pro has all features you need for converting
mainframe data, for connecting to and extracting databases, for web data mining,
and also for writing custom filters in VBScript and Jscript.
TextPipe Standard is very good for most programming
tasks but it does not have these high end features.
We provide an upgrade path from TextPipe Lite to TextPipe Standard to TextPipe
Pro. If you have trouble deciding which version of TextPipe fits your needs,
please contact us.
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Feature |
Lite? |
Standard? |
Pro? |
| Core features |
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| Visual drag and
drop mapping |
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| Save and reuse
conversions |
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| File-for-file compatible with
other versions? |
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| EasyPatterns |
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| Shred a file
(overwrite its contents) |
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| Search and replace with exact match, pattern match (both Perl and egrep),
sounds-like, edit-distance, Brief and MS-Word options, extract option |
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| Pattern matching sub-expressions |
Up to 10 |
Up to 10 |
Up to 99 |
| Multi-file, multi-folder |
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| Files of unlimited size (larger than 2GB) |
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| Filter wizard |
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| End of line conversion between
DOS/Mac/Unix etc |
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| Remove blanks and
remove extra white
space |
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| Add left
margin, add right margin,
add header, add footer |
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| Add line numbers |
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| Comment filter to document your
workflow |
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| Restrict changes to line or column ranges |
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Restrict changes to HTML/XML elements, attributes and between tags |
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| Detailed
audit logs of changes to each
file |
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Import search/replace lists, search/replace list filter |
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| Windows Explorer integration,
customize shell extensions |
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| Developer API |
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| Command line API
for integration with other programs |
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| Scripting API for
integration with other programs |
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Schedule/automate runs (via windows scheduler) |
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Filtering capabilities |
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Fixed width to Delimited Output Wizard |
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Restrictions - matching or non-matching lines (used for
processing database extracts and website logs), each line in turn |
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| Restrict to
filename - allows for file renaming using search/replace |
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| Restrict to files
based on their filename |
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| Move, copy,
remove and restrict to delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc) |
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Move, copy, remove and restrict to columns |
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| Debug filter to help get your
filter correct |
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| Remove HTML/XML elements, attributes and tags |
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Convert CSV to XML, CSV to tab-delimited |
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Convert Tab-delimited to XML, Tab-delimited to CSV |
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| Case changing filters
- UPPERCASE,
lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, rAnDOM CasE |
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| Randomize lines |
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| Reverse each line |
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| Reverse line order |
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| Add columns, add
bytes |
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| Word wrap |
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| Center text, right justify text |
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| Remove matching lines/retain matching lines, useful for processing web site logs and other
log files |
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| Remove
duplicate lines/count duplicate lines |
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| Remove backspaces |
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| Split and merge
(join) files |
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| Sort
(all types and options) |
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| Single-byte Character maps |
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| Unicode maps,
save to/load from Excel, CSV and Tab-delimited formats |
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| Convert from
Microsoft Excel to CSV |
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| Convert from
Microsoft Word to text |
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| Convert from PDF
to text |
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| Convert Tabs to Spaces, Spaces to
Tabs |
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| Sub filters - record blocks |
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| Secondary output filters |
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| OEM to ANSI, ANSI to OEM |
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| Extract email addresses |
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| Mainframe
Copybook Wizard |
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| User defined filters written in
VBScript/JScript and other scripting languages |
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| Extract URLs |
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| Remove email headers |
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| Unscramble (ROT13) |
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| Hex/MIME/UU/XX/HTTP email
attachment encoding and
decoding |
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| Extract filter |
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| Link to external filter file |
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| Text To Word List filter |
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| Pad to width/force to width/truncate
to width |
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| Resolve backspaces |
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| Remove start or end of file
(Unix head/tail) |
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Remove line range |
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| Remove ANSI codes |
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| Remove binary characters |
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| Remove all |
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| Run external filter (.exe) |
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| Add text side-by-side |
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| Hex/decimal dump |
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| Character maths |
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| Convert IBM Drawing characters |
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| Repeat file |
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| 144 Unicode
conversions filters from single byte, double byte and multi byte code pages;
remove BOM, swap words and force to Big or Little Endian |
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| ASCII to EBCDIC, EBCDIC to ASCII |
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| Remove and
restrict to Byte ranges |
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| Export filter to clipboard/export
command line to clipboard |
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| Export to JScript, VBScript and web pages |
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| Query databases via
OLE DB/ODBC to
XML, CSV, fixed width or SQL INSERT script format |
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Feature |
Lite/Web? |
Standard? |
Pro |