A Long-anticipated Reliable Solution for Text Extraction in the .NET Environment

Text extraction is one of the basic programming routines, which, nonetheless, is far from being simple. The variety of popular formats requires an ample number of text extractors using their own API's, which increases the total amount of work to be done for a single text extraction feature. If you are tired of looking for a stable and affordable component that will unify the and give you an opportunity to attend to other aspects of your application, make sure you do not overlook Gears.IFilterHelper.

(PRWEB) June 11, 2007 -- 9Rays.Net is glad to announce the release of Gears.Net line of products and Gears.IFilterHelper.

Gears.Net is a set of compact, specialized engines for .NET developers. The pilot product in the line is Gears.IFilterHelper, an all-in-one component designed to assist .NET developers in extracting text from a variety of formats.

Essentially, Gears.IFilterHelper is a simple and narrowly-focused library written entirely in C# and intended for efficient text extraction from a number of popular document types.

Gears.IFilterHelper is based on a proprietary technology from Microsoft Corp. called IFilters and makes the best possible use of its capabilities. The utilization of IFilters API helps dramatically expedite and facilitate tasks related to text processing and extraction from a multitude of sources, saving developers a fair amount of time, which would have otherwise be spent on implementing this functionality on their own. Gears.IFilterHelper is also extremely cost-efficient: its price is manifold lower than the aggregate cost of multiple third-party text-extraction components for separate document types.

Gears.IFilterHelper key advantages:

- Extracts text from files

- Automatically detects installed IFilters

- Works with any well-written IFilters

- Also supports Adobe PDF IFilter 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 for text extraction from PDF files from .NET

- Supports .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0

- C#, VB.NET and other CLS-compliant languages

Brief overview:

IFilters technology is a "secret weapon" of Microsoft Corp. - an API and corresponding components that allow users to extract text from various formats. Microsoft utilizes IFilters in such applications as Microsoft Desktop Search, Microsoft SQL Server and others for indexing and search capabilities in all kinds of documents.

IFilters is the easiest method to add high-quality support of various document formats to your software. For example, IFilters for MS Office file formats are pre-installed on every system running under Windows operating system.

IFilters are available for a wide range of popular formats and are supported by major software vendors. Microsoft provides support of their proprietary formats, including .doc, .xls, .ppt and others, whereas Adobe makes it possible to use IFilters for text extraction from the PDF format.

9Rays incorporated the main advantages of IFilters in Gears.IFilterHelper, which fuses the capabilities of IFilters technology and the simplicity of IFilters API to deliver a product that will be of great use to .NET developers of all levels and profiles. Simple, reliable and hassle-free text extraction from various file formats available in a single affordable component - that is what Gears.IFilterHelper all about.

Pricing and Availability:

Gears.IFilterHelper supports .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 and costs $125. Further information on Gears.IFilterHelper, FAQ's, as well as its free downloadable demo version is available from: http://www.9rays.net/products/Gears.IFilterHelper/

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Product page link: http://www.9rays.net/products/Gears.IFilterHelper/

Download link: http://download.9rays.net/gears.net/gears_ifh_demo.zip

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