| [ANN] FoxTrot Search Professional Search version 8.0b1 available for testing [message #1702] |
Mon, 11 September 2023 11:45  |
CTM info
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Dear FoxTrot-discuss list members,
On our download page, you will now find a download link to the first FoxTrot Professional 8.0 beta (b1), now including the all-new FoxTrot Duplicate Search:
<https://foxtrot-search.com/download.php>
Kindly supply us with feedback on this group or in an application-generated support case.
Thank you in advance.
the FoxTrot-Search team at CTM Development
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What’s new in FoxTrot 8
FoxTrot Professional introduces - and includes - the new FoxTrot Duplicate Search
Since its 2005 launch, FoxTrot’s design has focused on precision searching and making the number of results manageable.
One way to achieve this is to search, by default, for full words and suggest moderate usage of wildcards.
Another contributor is to offer multiple additive categorizations, in order to focus the user’s attention on a manageable and plausible number of hits.
Our work with customers and surveys has now prioritized reducing the number of duplicate and similar files before indexing. To this end, we are introducing a clean-sheet approach to duplicate identification and elimination.
Duplicate apps are a dime a dozen, and some obviously have pretty good features. But we think none are as comprehensive to iteratively sanitize an indexable data universe before using FoxTrot Pro - hence FoxTrot Duplicate Search’s unique features:
- Four methods to identify duplicates
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- filename (with or without extension)
- content
- duration, for time-based media such as video and audio
- a list of Spotlight attributes (time-based media)
- A dual list allowing display of all suspected duplicates on top and all variants of the selected duplicate on the bottom
- Direct actions such as Move to Bin, Delete immediately, Open in source application, Quicklook, etc…
- Powerful actions for batch selection by a number of criteriae
- FoxTrot Pro action menu item to search for duplicate files among selected documents
Indexing improvements
- PDF OCR: Scanned PDF documents can now be processed for Optical Character Recognition on macOS 13 Ventura or later to index their textual content.
- Images OCR: Scanned image files (.jpg, .png etc) can now be converted to PDF documents and processed for Optical Character Recognition on macOS 13 Ventura or later to index their textual content.
Search improvements
- You can now search for some Spotlight attributes that do not have a display name or description, and you can even manually add attributes that have not been declared by any application.
- Added support for “logical size” and “text content length” when filtering by Spotlight attribute.
User interface improvements
- Restore last used values when adding or toggling search criteria.
- Added “Did you know” tips window.
- Added “Open with…” contextual menu item, to open a found file using a specific application.
Other improvements
- Improved thumbnail generation speed in Thumbnails View mode.
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| Re: [ANN] FoxTrot Search Professional Search version 8.0b1 available for testing [message #1716 is a reply to message #1702] |
Fri, 20 October 2023 15:53  |
AJKS
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Registered: June 2020
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I'm using the beta but on an old iMac that does not reach the spec for doing OCR.
Will FTP convert the original scanned documents to OCR-readable documents (e.g. PDF scanned document converted to PDF+text document)?
Or does FTP simply add the new OCR data to its own index?
Or does it do some other metadata magic thingy?
I can see how some users might want the OCR data added to their original documents, while others would not want to, or may not be able to.
So, at least two options would be ideal.
Thanks
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| Re: [ANN] FoxTrot Search Professional Search version 8.0b1 available for testing [message #1718 is a reply to message #1716] |
Fri, 20 October 2023 17:12 |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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Quote:but on an old iMac that does not reach the spec for doing OCR
I don't think that there is any hardware requirement for macOS's OCR feature.
Quote:Will FTP convert the original scanned documents to OCR-readable documents
Yes, PDF files consisting of images are converted to PDF files consisting of images + text, then FoxTrot updates its index.
You can also convert other image formats (jpg, png…) to PDF with OCRed text.
You can choose to backup the original file as a .zip archive.
Quote:Or does it do some other metadata magic thingy?
No magic, but FoxTrot can add a tag to mark files converted to OCRed PDF.
To find PDF files that do not contain any text, and thus that are good candidates for OCR, see our FAQ
Unfortunately on macOS 14 an exception may occur when using the contextual menu (right-click) on one (or multiple) files; use the action menu from the toolbar instead, until we fix this in the next release.
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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