Friday, December 04, 2009

Find and extract text from InDesign and Quark Files

Markzware, creators of the popular Q2ID, ID2Q and PUB2ID file conversion plug-ins, has just released PageZephyr, a Macintosh-only program that will index your Quark 6 (or newer) and InDesign CS (or newer) files, and then allow you to search and view the text content in the files, and extract the found content to RTF or TXT files.

Potential uses include: quickly locating layout files based on content on a large storage volume, quick text extraction for repurposing or archiving content, or sifting through large volumes of Quark and InDesign content for legal discovery purposes.

I'll be evaluating PageZephyr in the near future, and will provide a more detailed post soon.

* Full disclosure: I'm a Markzware affiliate. This means that if you visit their site from here, and eventually buy something, I might make a few bucks. Thanks.

6 comments:

  1. MattThursday, December 10, 2009 12:09:00 PM

    This would be very useful to me, is there a solution for the PC?

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  2. Keith GilbertThursday, December 10, 2009 3:54:00 PM

    @Matt: I don't know of a similar solution for Windows, sorry.

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  3. David DillingSaturday, December 12, 2009 12:58:00 PM

    Thanks for the post and feedback opportunity Keith.
    Hi Matt,
    We are working on a Windows version of PageZephyr.

    -David
    Markzware

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  4. davMonday, February 14, 2011 8:28:00 AM

    Any idea of when a server base solution might be feasible? Like an integration engine to dams?

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  5. AnonymousWednesday, June 08, 2011 11:00:00 PM

    Hi Keith,

    Is it possible to extract text object and layers name from freehand?

    Thanks in advance

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  6. Keith GilbertThursday, June 09, 2011 9:34:00 AM

    @Anonymous: Sorry, I don't know of any way to extract text and layer names from a Freehand file.

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