PDF Explorer is a PDF file management software and image extraction tool. It gives you the opportunity to easily add and gather all your pdf files to a database file, that displays an overview of Title, Filename, Author and Subject.

With PDF Explorer you can easily index your entire collection of pdf documents, spread by several disks, network places and also within ZIP, RAR and ACE compressed archives.

We can then search through all the files using boolean expressions and full text search, view them, extract images, extract text, apply batch functions, and more.

PDF Explorer can also read out loud the pdf documents text so you can relax your eyes, or create wav or mp3 audio files so you can listen later.

PDF Explorer also includes a Web Server, providing remote access to some of the program functionalities with a simple web browser. We can leave the server running at home and access to our pdf collection from work office, or vice versa. We can also construct, with this functionality, a server-client scheme at our office LAN.

Here are some key features of "PDF Explorer":

· Multilang interface and User's guide (many languages already available)
· Scan pdf's and chm's inside zip, rar and ace compressed archives and network drives
· HTML Web interface provided by the embedded HTML server.
· Index documents metadata and pages text
· Add and edit metadata fields
· Full text search
· Boolean search
· Raw images viewereditorextractor
· Text viewer and extractor
· Batch tools to rename, extract images, print, and more
· Text to speech read out loud feature, SAPI4/5 voices compliant.
· Speak text to file, in wav or mp3 format.
· ISBN and DOI numbers catcher/sniffer and resolver
· Metadata fields edit assistants, QuickPaste and QuickImageOCR.
· Rotate Pages tool
· Anonymize tool, to remove all traces of metadata info
· Split/Extract and Merge/Rearrange pdf pages tools
· Stamp/Watermark pdf document pages with text, image and geometric shapes
· Set PDF open options
· Add, remove and consult pdf file attachments
· Import and export metadata fields
· Grid layout editor
· Database maintenance and backup features

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Now PDF Explorer is also a CHM Explorer. The same functionalities now extended to this popular file format, with internal CHM reader, text and image extractor.
· Quick Image OCR to assist the Quick Info Edit mode. Extract metadata even if raw image only PDFs.
· Use the grid layout editor to select what file types, PDF/CHM, to show in grid.
· The web server can now execute CGI/ISAPI applications and scripts. Popular script languages as PHP, Perl, Python, and CGI, .exe or .dll, applications can now be used to extend the web server possibilities.
· Increased web server access security with HTTPS protocol. To help configuration, added a wizard to generate auto-signed SSL certificates or SSL certificates requests.
· Possibility to upload files using the web server interface.
· Web server accesses can now be logged to a file, ECLF format, with automatic log file rotation.
· The Info Edit batch tool can now access any of the info fields contents to compose the new field content, with search and replace feature too.
· Possibility to add interface to external applications/scripts from the tools menu. Selected grid files can be passed as parameters.
· The image extractor can now maintain, without reencode, the internal image file format.
· PNG and GIF image file formats added to the possibilities of the image extractor encoder.
· Drag and Drop of metadata text into the info edit tool, even from external application.
· A new quick info edit assistant, the Rename On Metadata Change. File is automatically renamed using the pre-configured rule, when metadata edited.
· Functionality to manually execute the task automation Folders task on selected files.
· The automatic updates can now use proxy servers for Internet access.
· PDF Explorer command line now accept PDF files. Submitted files are automatically indexed and show on grid at startup. Useful to use with the Shell OpenWith or SendTo functionalities. Command line can also be used to start the .csv import wizard. Same functionality when dropping these files types in the program interface itself.
· The lite running mode can now auto start the web server and launch the web browser at startup.
· As usual, includes also many more small improvements and bug fixes.