Windows Extract - Lines From Files

In the eventuality that you are working with large documents on a daily basis, then there is a good chance that you had times when you needed to search for precise information within the content.

Windows Extract - Lines From Files is an application developed to help you extract lines of text that include the information you are looking for and hence, reduce the time and effort required to process large files.

The installation is quick, uneventful and does not require any special attention from your part. The program comes with a rather crowded GUI, but that is nonetheless user-friendly and unlikely to pose serious challenges.

In the upper section, you can add the files that you want to process and order them according to any desired priority. You should bear in mind that the order of the documents dictates the order of the lines that are going to be extracted. Make sure that you add the most relevant documents first.

You will be happy to learn that the application includes several features that can make the search or extraction more accurate. For starters, you can specify whether the lines should contain a particular keyword or exclude phrases.

Moreover, you can reduce the processing time considerably by specifying the lines that are likely to include the keywords. Since you need to process the retrieved data just as smoothly, you can choose between Autodetect, Windows and Unix as the New Line Character.

Depending on the requirements of your project, you can select the preferred output format. To be more precise, you can merge all lines in a single file, have an output file for each input counterpart, create a separate file after a pre-defined number of lines or when it reaches a certain size.

To conclude, Windows Extract - Lines From Files is a lightweight tool designed to lend a hand and save time to anyone who needs to process very large documents, such as Outlook PST or Excel Workbooks, for instance.