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What is TextPipe?
TextPipe^tm is a multi-award winning, industrial strength text transformation, conversion, cleansing and extraction workbench.

What does TextPipe do?
TextPipe makes it fast and easy to convert, transform and re-purpose data in text files, including

• HTML, XML and other structured documents from the WWW
• Fixed length or delimited files (CSV, Tab, Pipe, etc)
• Unix, Mainframe and PC/Windows end-of-line formats
• ASCII, ANSI, Unicode and EBCDIC files
• EDIFACT, HL7, SWIFT and other structured formats
• Spooled print files
• Structured and unstructured reports of any size or dimension

TextPipe also works with binary files, however for Word documents (.doc) see WordPipe, for Excel spreadsheets (.XLS) see ExcelPipe, for PowerPoint presentations (.PPT) see PowerPointPipe.

Seven Reasons Why TextPipe is Different

• TextPipe is exceptionally fast
• TextPipe handles files of unlimited size, even files larger than 2 Gigabytes! Other applications attempt to load the entire file into memory (grinding your system to a halt).
• TextPipe's unique restrictions control precisely where changes are made. Restrict to a range of lines or columns, to specific Tab or CSV fields, between HTML/XML tags, and inside custom ranges. Restrictions can be combined, for example, to columns 1-10 of lines matching a pattern. Restrictions are essential for extensive but controlled search and replace
• TextPipe performs multiple operations simultaneously. Other applications offer only 1, up to 5, or require a slow multi-pass approach
• If TextPipe's 100+ filters don't suit your needs, you can use industry standard VBScript/JScript to write your own. Other applications either don't offer this facility, or force you to learn a proprietary language
• TextPipe is unique in offering the EasyPattern pattern matching language for those not familiar with text pattern matching (regular expressions). EasyPatterns are English-like and very easy to learn
• TextPipe can be scheduled for non-interactive use, and can be controlled by an external program. Other applications provide only a mouse interface.

TextPipe will save you time, frustration and money. It will fix text data, regardless of the number of changes required, the size or number of files, and the complexity of the transformations.

Text Pipe is trusted by over 1500 customers in 56 countries to

• Convert Huge Files Quickly and Easily
• Data Mine Unstructured Mainframe Reports and Online Web Data
• Cleanse and Reformat Electronic Text
• Update Web Sites
• Data Warehouse ETL Processes
• Extract from Databases to XML, CSV, Tab
• Split and Join Huge Files
• Convert Between a Variety of Mainframe, PC and Unicode Data Formats  

TextPipe provides a single point of maintenance for all your text processing tasks. You learn one tool, rather than learning 4 or more - and their associated languages, command line options, debugging schemes, idiosyncrasies and operating system differences and dependencies. TextPipe is far less costly to learn, use, develop with and maintain than cobbling together multiple generic tools and custom scripts to achieve one end. It's a Swiss army knife combining the best of perl, awk, grep, sed, and many other less common text processing tools. You'll be productive with TextPipe in minutes, not days.

TextPipe's unmatched power comes from its arsenal of 100+ manipulation filters, its unique architecture and its tremendous flexibility in combining these filters to suit each task. Intuitive line, column, field, tag and attribute restrictions make fixing data extracts simple. You can extract and then modify data from databases, in delimited, XML and SQL Insert Script formats. You can roll your own custom filters using industry standard VBScript and JScript. With TextPipe you can create your own conversions, and deploy them for execution at remote sites. A single click merges files (even those larger than 10 GB), another click extracts emails addresses, and another click sorts and removes duplicates. Try doing that with less than 100 lines of code, in less than 10 seconds!

In a recent speed trial, TextPipe made 17 million replacements in a 250,000 record, 75 MB file in 1:45 seconds. Other 'popular' text applications took 35 minutes and 72 minutes, and MS Word took over 3 hours.

TextPipe runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP and 2003.

Try TextPipe today and see how easy it is to manipulate text!

Choose a version that suits your needs:

TextPipe Web  |  TextPipe Standard  |  TextPipe Pro

Try TextPipe today and see how easy it is to manipulate text!

Choose a version that suits your needs:

TextPipe Web  |  TextPipe Standard  |  TextPipe Pro

Try TextPipe today and see how easy it is to manipulate text!

Choose a version that suits your needs:

TextPipe Web  |  TextPipe Standard  |  TextPipe Pro

"Slam-dunk the most challenging edit tasks"

ZDNet

"A text processing utility on steroids"

Win 2000 Tips

"The best text processing utility"

Support Alert Newsletter

"Industrial grade text conversion utility...the most powerful text alteration utility available"

Australian Developer

ZDNet Review

It's hard to introduce TextPipe because nobody's ever seen anything like it before. When I saw a spreadsheet for the first time back in the 80's (Lotus 1-2-3 on DOS), I thought, wow, that's different and extremely useful. It's a eureka moment when you realize there's a new way to handle problems you deal with frequently. I had the same kind of moment when I discovered TextPipe. It's a whole new kind of software. It's not word processing; it's text processing.

It's more like a workbench than a toolbox, because it provides not only the tools you need to work with text, but also a work area that helps you try different things to zero in on a solution as quickly and with as little effort as possible.

Before TextPipe, I would be doing something tedious, usually with program code or a database, and I would think "this is a waste of time, but I'm too lazy to write a program to do this, or it would take longer to write the program than to do this tedious thing manually." Now I use TextPipe because it makes those tedious tasks easy to take care of, and I can make the most of my time.

TextPipe is for people who want to work smarter, not harder.

- David Johnson, LeapFrog Consulting

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

I just wanted to congratulate your company on a fine piece of software. Not only do I find the software intellectually stimulating (I haven't come across something so fine in at least ten years) but the software works like a dream. This software has revolutionized the way I work on a large aspect of my IT Consultancy business. What used to take hours to do now only takes minutes. It has provided me with a cutting edge tool to compete with, against other IT Consultant companies, in data mining and data manipulation. Used in conjunction with the database development I provide my clients I am able to reduce their costs, and provide a faster and more accurate service. As an example, this morning I was asked to produce an Internet abuse report at 08:55. This involves gathering data from 5 servers and collating 500+ .CSV reports each with thousands of records. This work would normally take 3 hours hard work using an advanced text editor and several scripts. With TextPipe Pro I had the report on his desk by 09:05. Impressive or what. I wish I had found your software years ago.

First, I will repeat how much I like your TextPipe program. I only stumbled upon it by accident, as I did not realize I had a need for anything like it or that anything like it even existed. I am an awk fan from way back, but there are things you can do in TextPipe that you can't in awk, and other things are easier. I was a hero at work when I took 2 hours to create an awk script that did all the processing required for a $10,000 contract. I could have done it in 10 minutes with TextPipe.

Andrew Phillips, ExpertComSoftware

Rares Dragan
Creative & Development Director
Experimental Magazine
www.experimental.ro

I wanted to let you how much I've appreciated having TextPipe Pro in my "tool box". It is easily one of the best utilities I have ever used, particularly because it does text cleaning, correction, and organization with ease in ways other programs can't or do only with difficulty. I've found it particularly useful with e-mail feedback from website users. Those that submit comments don't always do it in a way that makes analysis easy. But TextPipe will put it in any standardized format I choose so I can upload it into a database or spreadsheet for further work. No other program I know of can do that.

TextPipe is great for a million other things that word processors and standard software can't do. You've a great product and the high quality of your service and nearly immediate response time has been equally spectacular.

(and later on...) I am a social researcher by trade, now getting into international work in the court community. I often have to work with very dirty / challenging data sets that haven't been properly edited or checked and that's when your product comes in very handy.

Edwin Kennedy, Ph.D, Director, CourtStats.com

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!

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

So far it has saved me tons of work! I manage a fairly large website (4500 pages), and was able to completely revamp all pages at the same time, instead of one at a time!

- Vincent Beaulieu, SASS Webmaster , University of Ottawa

I finally made the move from Mac to PC. But, I had years and years and years worth of emails to transfer from Eudora Mac to Eudora Win - with hundreds of mailboxes. I used TextPipe to help with this process and make the job much easier. 

- Mark Hacker

I use TextPipe on a daily basis, for any number of things from conversion of URLs (during the relocation of sites for example) to specialty art projects. Often I use your product to move a site from a test position on the web, where my client can easily view it secretly, to a more public location. I can safely say, however, that your product was indispensable in maintaining my portion of the Ohio University web sites, as well as my other clients, and will remain an indispensable tool on all my computers as long as I can imagine.

- Steven Rutledge, TabletPress.net

As we process log files for many corporate sites and purposes, we trawl through GB's of many different kind of different logs. I used to make the tools I needed as I went along in order to normalize and streamline these. Now I use TextPipe as a very flexible tool, that gets the job done many times faster. 

- Anders Olsen, MediaWise A/S

I use it as a tool to clean up material I've collected from the Internet that has originated on a variety of systems and is hard to read due to the presence of strange characters.

- Alan Berger, hi-Tech Notes

And more unsolicited comments...

• What a great tool. I use it all the time in my work; sometimes even to generate source code. It takes care of many tedious editing tasks. I wish more people could understand its potential, but it's so different from any other software that most have a hard time grasping it.

• TextPipe is an elegant, comprehensive, well-thought-out program. Technical support is prompt and professional. TextPipe is an indispensable tool for anyone needing to modify text.

• What a stunning piece of software! I am using it for multiple url changes to multiple files and have not found anything else so comprehensive! - Simon Cox

• WOW! I just got around to trying the VBScript extension. This is powerful beyond belief. Adding this feature to your already very potent offering is just awesome.
• Thanks for the painless purchase procedure We hold large amounts (many megabytes) of ASCII data which has been dumped from tapes to CD-ROMS. Tape formatted data does not contain record markers and the copied files on CD's are not formatted into regular columns. Your program enables us to read the files with specified record lengths and save in a usable form. Thanks again. - Garth Bird, Rio Tinto
• When we first began our web site, we thought it would never exceed more than twenty or thirty pages. Being new to HTML, we decided to use FrontPage for development. Well, after three years, and three different versions of FrontPage, we found ourselves administering a 1,000+ web site. Since our skills had grown, there were aspects of web pages that we needed to update. For example, we had a number of different non-standard page designs that we wanted to bring in-line with a standard page design. However, FrontPage's Search and Replace functions weren't up to the task. We were fortunate to discover TextPipe, and used the program to make multiple passes through our code. With some much-appreciated support from Simon Carter, we were able to use TextPipe to clean our entire site. Kirk VandenBerghe, HeartCore Corporation, Kauai, Hawaii  http://askAlana.com
• I am working with an extremely large patient clinical database, approx. 3 Terabytes, in my research. I am extracting clinical records, which are basically ASCII text files, in order to look for certain trends or indicators doctors use to describe the treatments and outcomes for certain classes of cancers. I use TextPipe to make the records anonymous. I use it to strip out all the demographic information that might identify the patient, but keep all the info, age, sex, race, and etc., that describe the patient. Making anonymous medical patient databases is very difficult and your tool really makes it easy to process large numbers of records rather easily. Your tool fits the bill for me, and has save me a lot of time that I might have burned up writing a ton of Perl scripts to do what you tool does so well. - Clifton Slater
• I really love TextPipe! It has saved me countless hours of massaging and converting UNIX-generated text files into structured text files for importation into NT-based Excel spreadsheets - Greg Hall, ESM Consulting
• TextPipe is a great piece of software - I have been very impressed with it - good on 'ya
• Hey, thanks! I'll adjust those (filter documentation) comments and get a new release down to you shortly. You've been so helpful; I just can't believe what a pleasure it is to do business with you.
• I just downloaded a trial version of TextPipe, and it's great...nice job!
• It really has a wealth of possibilities....
• Hey Simon, just thought I'd let you know that I've been using TextPipe for about three hours and I find it to be an extremely useful tool. Kudos to you!!! Great Program, I only wish I had more stuff to convert as it does the job perfectly...
• GREAT stuff! Real solid. I ran many Gutenberg texts through our filter successfully. I especially like the direct clipboard feed feature, much more natural - Mike Pullen
• You are the man. It works great. Thanks a heap.
• Thank you, thank you, thank you!
• I saw the TextPipe application on the Torry Delphi pages and tested it for my purposes and it seems to do most of what I need (and a lot extra).
• It's ideal for what I spend too much of my time doing!
• This tool is shaping up even better than I had hoped. I've been using a myriad of PERL scripts to manipulate these things with varying degrees of success. Sometimes I'd forget to run one and then everything got kind of weird. This one tool now does about 90% of the manual steps that used to take me hours.
• I have downloaded your TextPipe for Windows 9x/NT, and am quite impressed with its level of features.

Try TextPipe today and see how easy it is to manipulate text!

Choose a version that suits your needs:

TextPipe Web  |  TextPipe Standard  |  TextPipe Pro