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Professional Text Conversion

Please note folks: the lite, standard, pro, and embeddable DLL versions of TextPipe are all available today at a 50% discount. Take a look at the feature comparison chart to decide which version is right for you!

Plain and simple, TextPipe is the most powerful text conversion, transformation, and re-purposing software money can buy. It's a Swiss army knife combining the best of Perl, Awk, Grep, Sed, Word and Excel macros and other text processing tools into one neat interface.

Use it to mass search/replace across websites, extract data from huge log files, convert text encodings (e.g. ANSI to UTF-8), convert end-of-line characters, convert mainframe EBCDIC files to PC format, extract email addresses, extract mailing labels from reports and more. A unique system of restrictions control precisely where changes are made. For example, you can restrict search/replace, CaSe changing operations etc to a range of lines or columns, to lines matching a pattern, to specific Tab or CSV fields, between HTML/XML tags, or a combination of these.

For a recent customer, TextPipe applied 603,000 different search/replaces against a 48 MB file in under 30 seconds! TextPipe handles documents of any size (2 GB plus) with no slowdown, such as Excel CSV files with more than 65535 rows. It can also process compressed files in-situ, such as zip files, website log files, Microsoft Office 2007+ files, OpenOffice files and more.

If TextPipe's 100+ filters or 380 demo files don't suit your needs, you can roll your own or even use VBScript/JScript to write your own.

As well as traditional perl-style pattern pattern matching, TextPipe offers the intuitive EasyPattern pattern matching language for beginners. For automated use, TextPipe can be scheduled via the command line or controlled from any programming language using COM. TextPipe can also take advantage of multiple processors.

You'll be productive with TextPipe in minutes, not days.

You can take a look at this video to see TextPipe in action

In a recent customer trial, TextPipe performed 600,000 different search/replaces against a 48 MB file in under 30 seconds!

Today's TextPipe discount promotion includes the following license types:

TextPipe Standard (+1 Yr Maintenance) ($169.15)

TextPipe Pro (+1 Yr Maintenance) ($335.75)

TextPipe Lite (+1 Yr Maintenance) ($33.99)

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“I use it handling differences in data interchange with our customer banks. But as I use this product, I am learning ways to eek value out of our investment. I used to have an entire folder full of quick little VB programs that I would write to fix up data, and I no longer use them. They all have been replaced by TextPipe.Since I bought the product 20 days ago, I have replaced all of my other home-brew utilities and processed over 350GB of data.”- Jeff W. Martin, Carreker Corporation
“Considering the amount of brute work I saved using the TextPipe Pro filtering and automation options, I must recognize that your software is not just a nice addition to a text editor but a daily use tool for any serious web developer.Thank you for the opportunity of using it.”- Rares Dragan, Experimental Magazine
“I just wanted to let y'all know that I can attribute my 7 person and growing company to TextPipe Pro. Practically every developer I've met has turned their nose up at TextPipe. It usually isn't long before a problem comes up, and I recommend a TextPipe solution, which they inevitably ignore, and then go screw up royally using some other method. Fortunately I have TextPipe to save the day. I'm not a developer, but maybe I should have been. To give you some idea, I've created over 300 TextPipe filters to accomplish various tasks. Some I've spent minutes on, some programs I've spent weeks on and contain over 30 unique filters. Anyway, enough about my TextPipe compulsions, I want to know how I can get a TextPipe Pro t-shirt so that I can sport it around the office. Thanks!”- Joseph Ring, CEO, Ring Marketing
“I initially invested in it for two reasons. One was that ZDNet gave it a 10 out of 10 when compared to similar products, and the second was that I needed something good to clean and process form data from my web site.Please share my appreciation to your entire team.Cordially,”- Edwin Kennedy, Ph.D, Director, CourtStats.com
“What I can say is that it's an incredible 'Swiss Army knife' of a tool that quickly became a part of my everyday work life. It was easy to pick up and apply on the fly to do things like text clean-up, perform columnar search and replace, reformatting output files, etc. You can use it the first minute you have it, but it's also something you'll grow into...”- David Zimmerman, Market Data Center

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Paul S. Hello Simon,

Will there be an upgrade deal this time?

Apr 24 at 3:02am

disenchanted Last time Textpipe was offered on BDJ was Oct 2012.

During the last BDJ sale, ANY textpipe product was available for 50% off.
(see Textpipe response below, dated Oct 2012".

Starting in the 4th paragraph", Where it says,
[quote]"All TextPipe products are 50% off, so you can choose which one you need for a great deal. [/unquote]

QUESTIONS:
1. Will you be extending the same offer to us during this sale?
2. Will all of your products be available to receive the 50% off discount?

Thanks in advance.

----response from oct 2012---[quote]----------------
Oct 11 2012 at 12:47pm
Simon Carter @Kelly: TPP can extract text from Excel, Word and PDF documents - but it cannot replace inside those formats and result in the original document - all processes result in text files or some type.

For MS Word, use our WordPipe product, which works specifically with Word documents. Similarly for Excel - use ExcelPipe.

The EasyPattern matching language is included, there is an extra 'helper' add on which helps you design EasyPatterns (not included).

All TextPipe products are 50% off, so you can choose which one you need for a great deal. TextPipe Pro is mainly used for mainframe copybook conversions. Yes, the listing heading is misleading and I will get it changed.

After 1 year upgrades are optional. The product does NOT stop working.
------------------------[unquote]----------------------------------

Apr 24 at 7:33am

Simon Carter @disenchanted: What is it that you actually want to purchase? Yes, all our TextPipe products will be available for this discount, as before. Did you miss out last time?

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 25 at 7:12pm

Simon Carter @Paul: No, this offer is for new customers or for existing customers adding new licenses. Upgrades are inexpensive as it is - no penalty for missing years of upgrades, a full year of both major and minor upgrades etc.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 25 at 7:13pm

Gonzo I hope I can someday buy this, as it looks like a very powerfule software. Too bad it's beyond my budget, even with the discount :(

Apr 26 at 2:46am

disenchanted @Simon,
I bought textpipe last time.
Later I discovered that I should have bought Wordpipe as well.

Apr 26 at 5:08am

Simon Carter @Gonzo: Sorry to hear that! Did you try the Lite version? Just $14.97

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 6:00am

Simon Carter @disenchanted: If you sign up for a WordPipe newsletter, you might find a discount in the mail... Also, there will be an x64 release in the next two weeks.

EasyPattern helper helps you design patterns - based on our EasyPattern language which is designed for beginners. The concepts you learn from this can readily be applied to standard perl-regular expressions - they're just a lot harder for beginners to understand.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 6:02am

Gerard Booth How do I go about getting a refund on the purchase. I downloaded the trial and tested it. very good software but could only test the Pro version in the trial. Then purchased the lite version which I thought would fulfil my needs. However I did not expect every menu and filter from the Pro version to still be present and visible in the lite version. Unless of course I have missed something and there is an option to remove these non working items.

Apr 26 at 6:06am

Simon Carter @Gerard: There is an option to trial the Pro, Standard and Lite on our website, it is very clear. If you wish we can remove these items from the Lite version, but you will have to wait for the next minor release.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 6:11am

Simon Carter 11:13pm Friday night here in Melbourne, Australia, but keep the questions coming - we'll get to them at 6am tomorrow! Until then..

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 6:14am

Gerard Booth Hello Simon, You are of course correct I have just visited your site and checked and all three versions are available in trial form for download. Unfortunately I never checked your site at first and used the trial download link from the Bitsdujour page and this is for the Pro version only..

It would have been better to have all non functioning items removed from the lite version. Don't get me wrong the Standard and Pro versions are excellent but go way beyond my needs. How long would I have to wait for the next release or is simpler to get a refund under your 30 day offer

Apr 26 at 6:22am

John Killeen Just to clarify something about Textpipe Lite, which seems to be the version aimed at home users. One of the most common uses for this kind of software at home would be batch file renaming, e.g. taking a large quantity of photographs and renaming them according to a regex-style pattern. But the Lite version doesn't seem to process filenames, unless I'm doing something wrong.

I see in the comparison table that you need the Standard version to restrict Textpipe to the filename. Does this actually mean that Lite doesn't process filenames at all?

Apr 26 at 6:52am

disenchanted @Simon,

QUESTIONS:

1. If I want to get Wordpipe and Easypatterns during this sale,
how do I go about it?

2. Webpipe, which is actually "Offline explorer pro".
Is this product on sale today as well?
(I suspect this product will not be included in the sale, as it is now a "Metaproducts" product, not a "Datamystic" product per se)?

3. There are 2 vendors for your software fulfillment:

a. Shareit

b. Avangate

c. Also there is the ability to "generate a quote".

d. If we are buying your other products, like Wordpipe, is there a discount code to enter at checkout?

Thanks in advance Simon.

Apr 26 at 7:13am

Alberto Voli How does it compare to datapipe? In other words can text pipe read and write to databases? and/or only read, export to a csv file which I then need to upload back into database?

when you say that it includes the easy patterns.. does it include the entire easy patters application?

thanks!

Apr 26 at 1:26pm

Simon Carter @Gerard: Definitely within the next 30 days

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 2:17pm

Simon Carter @John: You're right - the Lite edition doesn't allow search/replaces and other operations to occur inside the filename itself. Naturally it still processes files! It's a good suggestion - we'd be happy to push this filename restriction filter down into the Lite edition in the next release.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 2:20pm

Simon Carter @disenchanted: Only TextPipe is on sale today. WebPipe has been discontinued - as you say, you need to purchase OEPro from metaproducts.

If you'd like to purchase other items as well, you need to use the Avangate cart for all items. First use the Bits du Jour checkout link (which uses Avangate), then return to http://www.datamystic.com/buy, go to the WordPipe page, select your quantity, then click the Avangate button. WordPipe should now be added to your cart. Then do the same process for EasyPattern Helper.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 2:24pm

Simon Carter @Alberto: With DataPipe, you can apply a TextPipe filter to just one column without messing with the remaining columns (especially important if you have blob data).

With TextPipe, you'd have to use a database filter to SELECT the entire table, which you can choose to generate SQL for you, then search/replace the appropriate columns in the SQL data, then use another database filter to push the data back into the database (after using an add header filter to 'delete from tablename;' first. It's not as clean as using DataPipe if you actually want to keep the data in the database.

Please note that DataPipe includes a copy of TextPipe in the purchase price.

The EasyPattern Helper is not included in the TextPipe price; TextPipe includes the EasyPattern pattern matching language, see it here: http://www.datamystic.com...terns.html

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 2:29pm

John Killeen @Simon: Thank you for the positive response. In that case I'll buy Textpipe Lite and look forward to the next release. I also think it gives you the opportunity to sell Textpipe to a new market. There are many batch file re-naming programs on the market, but most rely on the user learning regex for complex re-name jobs. EasyPatterns does look as if it will be of benefit in such tasks.

Apr 26 at 3:06pm

Alberto Voli Thanks Simon, I read something about TextPipe working via API.. I am a heavy user of Macro Scheduler which I believe is using your easypattern matching language as well... I can't say enough good things about Marcus and his team and of course Macro Scheduler in all the automations we are doing.. but back on topic with TextPipe.. is there a way to incorporate it's functionality within Macro Recorder?

Thanks again for taking the time to answer our questions!

Apr 26 at 3:11pm

Simon Carter @Alberto: Sure - I believe in macro scheduler's macro language, you can create a TextPipe object - a class TextPipe.Application. Once you have this, please see http://www.datamystic.com...le_vb.html for sample code which will help you automate it.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 8:13pm

Simon Carter @John: Thanks John, we're always open to new possibilities!

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 26 at 8:15pm

Gerard Booth @Gerard: Definitely within the next 30 days

That's fair enough for me Simon. I look forward to the update with all the non functioning areas removed.

Apr 27 at 8:00am

Bradley MacDonald Hello Simon,

It looks like a nice product. Some questions:
1. Can I use Text Pipe to strip out RTF text from a text file? I want to take a RTF formatted file and strip out the RTF formatting - resulting in just the text of the file. This would be very important to me. Is there a menu option to do so? Or would I have to write a custom filter to do that?

2. You mention above that if we purchased Data Pipe - we get a copy (license?) for TextPipe as well? It seems to be the Pro version. Correct?

3. If purchased - I do some data conversions for clients - and I run each in their own Virtual Machine (VMWare). Would I be able to install it in each VM? Or is it capable of accessing the DBs on each VM from one machine upon which it is installed. It would hvae to be accessed via IP Address in that case.

Comment: Took a look at your web site (love the contact time zones on your contact page) - and you have some interesting products. If I can strip out RTF text - I will probably purchase datapipe.

Bradley MacDonald

Apr 27 at 10:11am

Simon Carter @Bradley: Yes, you need to be familiar with RTF codes to do this. Another option would be to use the MS Word to text filter, which will achieve the same thing more simply.

2. Yes - DataPipe includes TP Pro.

3. TP uses a standard OLE DB DSN or Data Source Name to attach to the DB - this should work to connect to remote DBs. You could only install it in one client VM at a time.

Thanks! Operating from Australia, having the time zone difference is important for customers trying to call us!

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 27 at 3:34pm

NC Buyer Will we be able to transfer our license to the x64 version coming out in two weeks (mentioned above)? I have an x64 version and would much rather operate the x64 version...

Apr 27 at 5:20pm

Bradley MacDonald Simon - above you said to use the MS Word to Text Filter. Is this part of TextPipe - or would I have to purchase the Word product seperately??

Apr 27 at 7:18pm

Aaron Sword TextPipe Standard looks like a great piece of software, and even better, I wouldn't have to write it myself! However, I just cannot afford $99 for the Standard version, even though that's half off. Maybe some day it will swing back around and my small one man operation will be in a position to take advantage of it. Thanks for making great software!

Apr 27 at 9:16pm

Alberto Voli Hi Simon,

Just bought it although I did not pay attention until the second look that it was saying that I was buying the standard for $99.. correct me if I wrong, but I believe that $99 was for the pro correct?
Look forward to working with it!

Alberto

Apr 27 at 9:41pm

Simon Carter @NC Buyer: That is a WordPipe x64 version coming out in two weeks, but yes, these will be transferable.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 28 at 1:55pm

Simon Carter @NC Buyer: DataPipe is not included for now, but if you purchase TP Pro with the 50% discount, you can then cross grade to DataPipe for $100 more.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 28 at 1:56pm

Simon Carter @Bradley: The MS Word to Text Filter is part of TextPipe, but it does require MS Word to be installed.
Thank you!

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 28 at 1:57pm

Simon Carter @Aaron: Thanks for your positive feedback!

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 28 at 1:57pm

Simon Carter @Alberto: the Pro is normally $395, and the Standard normally $199, so the $99 price for Standard is correct.

DataMystic Vendor - Apr 28 at 1:59pm

NC Buyer @Simon: I saw this too late. Do you think the 50% off deal will be back soon?

Apr 28 at 6:03pm

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