- Here was a great article about PageZephyr over on TechNewsWorld, with deeper insights into the desktop search and extraction capabilities this technology and app offers for proprietary page layout documents like Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress; expanding where Spotlight stops. Here is just a sniplet from this detailed and insightful piece titled, “PageZephyr Sees What Spotlight Can’t“:

“Considering the length of time programs like Quark and InDesign have been in the market and the key role search plays in almost every facet of computer use, one might think a program like PageZephyr would have been introduced long ago, but it wasn’t.”
SOURCE: http://www.technewsworld.com

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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/68966.html

Contact:

Mary Gay Marchese

949-756-5100, ext. 250

pr@markzware.com

Take Control of Your Data with New Desktop Search and Content Extraction

PageZephyr Makes Converting and Searching Content in Proprietary File Types a Breeze

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SANTA ANA, California – December 2, 2009 – Markzware, developer of FlightCheck® and inventor of preflighting, has released PageZephyr^TM, a content search and extraction engine. PageZephyr has been developed using Markzware’s Common Reader Architecture (CRA), the high-performance technology at the heart of Markzware’s current and future products.

Benefits and Features of PageZephyr:

PageZephyr technology makes it possible to search proprietary documents, then takes that to a higher level allowing you to examine and extract text from the most popular publishing native file formats, such as Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, and soon Microsoft Publisher, PageMaker and other document types.

Content-intense professions that specialize in managing, locating and re-using large volumes of specific data will substantially benefit. PageZephyr is especially valuable to businesses such as: advertising, publishing and printing, manufacturing, finance, legal (e-discovery / e-forensics), information and governmental agencies.  Read more... (757 words, estimated 3:02 mins reading time)

In this “making of” the AMERICAN PRINTER TV crew film an interview with Patrick Marchese, Co-founder and CEO of Markzware and a subsequent demonstration of some new, exciting desktop search technology, for indexing and extracting your desktop publishing formats, such as Adobe InDesign and QuarkXPress, from this well know preflight (FlightCheck) and conversion (Quark to InDesign) software developer… more below, but first the video:

Patrick tells us what PageZephyr, the name of this new technology is and briefly what it does. Doug Rosen shows how it works and I stuck in the middle there a small SnapzPro captured demo of some of the key functions of PageZepher. In a nut-shell, it is:

Index, Search, View, Extract and Distribute

QuarkXPress and Adobe InDesign Content -

Partial Transcript:

Gonna do a video demonstration for American PrinterTV on the new PageZephyr…. the filming of, the making of… Basically start with your name… are you ready Doug, getting nervous? No more nervous than normal!

OK, whenever your ready (says the camera man to Patrick)…

Hi my name is Pat Marchese with Markzware and I’m here to introduce a brand new product by the name of PageZephyr (PageZepher). What PageZephyr is, is a reader for Quark, InDesign and soon Publisher PageMaker and other document types.  Read more... (638 words, estimated 2:33 mins reading time)