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:

Matt said...

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

Keith Gilbert said...

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

David Dilling said...

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

-David
Markzware

dav said...

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

Anonymous said...

Hi Keith,

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

Thanks in advance

Keith Gilbert said...

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