Difference in version 4
Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2001 10:29 am
Is anyone able to tell me the difference (apart from the big price increase!) between version 4 and 2.5?
Here are some of the key differences:
Administrative features:
Totally customizable, full featured, scripted walker
Web based administrative interface (no command line required):
- Customizable, password protected, multi-user, full online help
PDF support available for all operating systems
- Improved appearance of PDF text extraction
- Support for PDF 4 and 5 documents
Friendly query log report generation
Convenient interface for listing and deleting urls in the database
Imports option settings from webinator 2 databases
More licensing options
Licenses may be upgraded by a simple key rather than reinstallation
Walking features:
Categories specified by url patterns
Cookie support
Meta robots support
Iframe support
Automatic optional reindexing on change
Ignore case option for help in walking Windows based servers
Simplified handling of PDF, MSWord, Shockwave/Flash, etc. plugins
Ability to ignore certain portions of web pages
Ability to look only at certain portions of web pages
Ability to automatically remove commonality (templates/boilerplate) from web pages
Walks using multiple threads and processes
Search features:
Search by date as well as relevance built in
Search by category
Automatic "Search these answers" feature
More search settings controllable with admin interface (though it is still totally customizable)
The pricing has been restructured to accomodate users' desires for a range of options between Webinator and Full Texis.