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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 superb for

TextPipe Pro has additional features for converting mainframe data.

Full Feature Comparison Chart

This chart lists the feature differences between TextPipe Lite, TextPipe Standard and TextPipe Pro. TextPipe No Editing 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.

TextPipe Lite Standard Pro
Feature \ License Type Single User Single User Single User No Editing App Server/ MultiCPU Edition Floating License Engine
Licensing and sharing              
License sharing, multiple installs One workstation, or One user only1 One workstation, or One user only1 One workstation, or One user only1 One workstation, or One user only1 One Server only Yes, multiple installs, access controlled by Floating License Server Yes
Server install allowed?         ✔ ✔ ✔
Interactive GUI ✔ ✔ ✔   ✔ ✔  
Core features              
Visual drag and drop mapping ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ n/a
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 EasyPatterns), sounds-like, edit-distance, Brief and MS-Word options, extract option ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Number of filters in the filter list Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited
Pattern matching sub-expressions (used to re-arrange the found text in the replacement - $1, $2, $3 etc) Up to 10 Up to 99 Up to 99 Up to 99 Up to 99 Up to 99 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/subfilter changes to line or column ranges ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Restrict/subfilter changes to HTML/XML elements, attributes and between tags ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Remove binary characters ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Case changing filters - UPPERCASE, lowercase, Title Case, Sentence case, tOGGLE cASE, rAnDOM CasE ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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              
Matrrix / Simultaneous search e.g Blazing speed for 2000+ terms   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Fixed width to Delimited Output Wizard   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Restrict/subfilter lines - matching or non-matching lines (used for processing database extracts and website logs), each line in turn ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Restrict/subfilter on filename - allows for file renaming using search/replace ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Restrict/subfilter on files based on their filename ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Restrict/subfilter to blocks of lines   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Move, copy, remove and restrict/subfilter to delimited fields (CSV, Tab, Pipe etc) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Move, copy, remove and restrict/subfilter 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 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
T-Filter (copy output to a new stream of filters) ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Extract email addresses ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Extract filter ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Extract URLs ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Remove and restrict/subfilter to Byte ranges   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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 ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Secondary output filters ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Sub filters - record blocks ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Query databases via OLE DB/ODBC to XML, CSV, fixed width or SQL INSERT script format ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
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/subfilter on UTF-8 files, Restrict//subfilter 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   ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Other              
Export filter to clipboard/export command line to clipboard ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Export to JScript, VBScript and web pages ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔  
Mainframe copybook functions - for converting mainframe data              
Mainframe Copybook Filter     ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
ASCII to EBCDIC, EBCDIC to ASCII ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔
Time and accuracy savings - immeasurable. Pricing (before volume discounts) $150 / year $199 / year [volume discounts] $399 / year [volume discounts] $199 / year $699 / year per Server $499 / year per Floating License $500 / year per Application

1. One workstation, or One user only