Foxit PDF IFilter

Microsoft has finally chosen Foxit PDF IFilter as its best solution to search within PDF files!

Great news: Microsoft Corporation has finally chosen Foxit PDF IFilter and 24*7 IFilter premium service support as its best solution to index and search within PDF documents on Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services. The Foxit PDF IFilter has proven to be the industries number one choice when it comes to choosing PDF Ifilter software.

Buy it now at 10% off the following published rates.

Overview

Foxit PDF IFilter is designed to help users to index a large amount of PDF documents and then quickly find text within these documents. The PDF documents can be files, email attachments or database records.

Foxit PDF IFilter supports up to PDF 1.7 specification and future versions can be used in the following environments: Windows Indexing Service, MSN Desktop Search, Internet Information Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS), Site Server, Exchange Server, SQL Server and all other products based on Microsoft Search technology. Hereafter, we use term "search engine" to refer to these products.

Foxit PDF IFilter acts as a plug-in for full-text search engines. A search engine usually works in two steps:

Step 1, the search engine goes through a designated place, e.g. a file folder or a database, and indexes all documents or newly modified documents, including PDF documents, in the background and creates internal data to store indexing result.

Step 2, a user specifies some keywords he would like to search and the search engine answers the query immediately by looking up the indexing result and responds to the user with all the documents that contains the keywords.

During Step 1, the search engine itself doesn't understand format of a PDF document. Therefore, it looks in windows registry for an appropriate PDF IFilter and finds the Foxit PDF IFilter. Foxit PDF IFilter understands PDF format. It filters out embedded formatting and extracts text from the document and return text back to the search engine. Further information about IFilter specification can be found on the Microsoft Web site.

MSDN Blogs Review: ”…Foxit 32bit PDF IFilter is more than 4 times faster than the Adobe one....On average, Foxit x64 PDF IFilter is still 5 times faster than the Adobe one. So if PDF indexing is the key to your business, go with Foxit to get a much better performance…”

Key Benefits:

• Integrates with existing operating systems and tools within your company
• Provides an easy solution to search within PDF documents located on local computer, local network and intranet
• Greatly increases your ability to accurately locate information
• Much smaller and faster than IFilter offered by other vendors
• Support Chinese/Japanese/Korean PDF documents
• Supports native 64-bit code
• Supports multi-threading and takes full use of multiple-CPU in a server

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Licensing Information

Foxit PDF IFilter can be used for free on desktop environment. However, users need to purchase licenses when they use Foxit PDF IFilter on server environments.

License cost for each server with up to two CPU cores is $329.99. Each additional CPU core costs $129.99. Please be aware that each dual-core CPU counts as two CPU cores and each quad CPU as four CPU cores. Each license covers both 32-bit and 64-bit IFilter versions.

As a promotion, we're pleased to offer 30% off for testing, development and 50% off for backup servers based on the full price for production server environment. The license for backup servers is purchasable only when a license for a production or development/test server is ordered.

The following is a calculation example:

Total servers: two

One production server with four CPU cores:
$329.99 + $129.99*2=$589.97

One development/test server with six CPU cores:
$(329.99 + 129.99*4)*0.7=$594.96

Total amount: $1184.93