UF - Version number 13 and only support for PDF and DOC?

[ajones]

I was looking at the new UltraFinder and wondered how new it really was. I noticed that it is starting out at version 13. Is IDM reselling another product or buy another product? Thus there is a historical code base?

I am a long time UE user with lifetime upgrades. Been debating about adding UltraCompare/UEStudio (but need a good upgrade package for all) ... the UF sounds good but would like it to search more than PDF or DOC.

Any more background thoughts/info beyond what is on the web page?

Any thoughts on UF?

thanks

Alan

[Mofi]

Most likely the version of new product UltraFinder starts with major version 13 because of release year 2013. Well, we have Nov. 2012, but main release year will be next year. Same was done with UEStudio released first time 2005. First version has had as major version 05. This version numbering is common practice for many software products nowadays, perhaps to help users to identify how old their used software is and when purchased the license.

UltraFinder does not only support *.pdf and *.doc. It finds all files matching a pattern. Searching for text in files supports also all files containing text (*.txt, *.htm, *.csv, ...).

PDF is extra mentioned because text in PDF files are ususally compressed and therefore standard find text in files features fail on PDF files. PDF files must be decompressed in memory to be able to search for text in a PDF file. Of course if a PDF file contains just a scanned image of a text sheet, UltraFinder cannot find any text in such an image PDF.

Finding text in DOC files is also mentioned extra because *.doc files are binary files containing text in ANSI as well as in Unicode mixed with additional formatting options. Therefore *.doc files must be first interpreted (UF converts them temporarily to RTF) to be able to find and output text in a *.doc file.