When introducing a Document Management solution into a company, that is using many different software applications, the challenge to index and convert the thousands of different unstructured file types can be overwhelming.  It's tempting to only focus on a small subset of file types, and ignore any files that you don't recognize.  File Investigator empowers you to catch over 90% of the files you find, and protect your company from data loss.  Once a file is identified, metadata is extracted to help index the file and direct it to the right text extraction method: Unicode, ASCII, single byte, double byte, etc..

Identify Files Before You Filter

Filtering files by their file extensions or with simple header pattern matching, threatens the quality of any Document Management solution.  When kulling (searching and collecting) files across networks and hard drives, it is vital to correctly identify each file before performing data reduction and filtering them out.  Some files get renamed by accident, and others are hidden maliciously.  No matter the cause, you want to find all of your data assets.  File Investigator identifies over 90% of your files, whether they have been tampered with or not.

Find The Hidden Content

Some file types fail to remove deleted text, just like a computer's hard drive doesn't really delete your files.  File Expander detects that hidden or lost text and provides the necessary details to extract it.