In the world of thousands of different formats of instrument outputs, Epiatech universal text parsing solution enables your system to learn how to read any of them. Epiatech presents a software component that can be integrated into any Windows based system in read the data from any text file. Contact: Epiatech d.o.o. Primož Javornik primoz.javornik@epiatech.com www.epiatech.com

1. Processing Text Files
With Configurable Text Filter
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2. Specific filter for each text
file type
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Report
Instrument
Output
Processing
Results
New Type of
Text File
Report
Filter
Instrument
Filter
Processing
Filter
???
Report
Filter
Output
Instrument
Filter
Output
Processing
Filter
Output
User Text
Filter
Output
1
2
3
N

3. One filter for all text files
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Report
Template
Instrument
Template
Result
Template
User text
Template
Configurable
Text
Filter
Report
XML
Instrument
XML
Result
XML
User text
XML
Report
Instrument
output
Processing
Results
User
Text file
1
2
3
N

4. Specific Filter
• Availability
• Purchasing
• Maintenance
• Upgrading
problems
• Not flexible
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N x
• Best fit
• Ready to use
Advantages Drawbacks

5. Configurable Filter
• Availability
• Purchasing
• Maintenance
• Upgrading
problems
• Suits all
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1 x
• Good fit
• Must be
configured
Advantages Drawbacks

6. File System Configuration
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Template
XML Files
Text
Files
Configurable
Text Filter
CTF
Template
Designer
Result XML
Files
FS

7. ECM Configuration
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ECM
Templates
Configurable
Text Filter
CTF
Template
Designer
ECM Text
Files
ECM File
Properties
CTFTD ECM
Extension
ECM
Interface
ECM

8. CTF Template Designer
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This pane contains:
• Sample files
• Result files
Template
Editor
Key Editor
ECM Extension
Status Line
Toolbar
Menu

9. Menus
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File Edit Key Run ECM Window

10. Toolbar
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New
Template
Open
Template
Save
Template
Cut Copy Paste New
Key
Delete
Key
Run
Filter
Preview
whole file
Preview
Key

11. Key Editor
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Key name
Number of
instances:
* Zero or more
+ One or more
n Exactly n
n, n or more
m,n From m to n
Order of keys
is important
Extract the
key mid part
Key is ECM
attribute
Select key
color
Apply
changes
Key
start / end
definition
Key ends an
ECM set

12. Key Start & End Definition
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Regular
expression
Extract the
key start / end
part
Automatic fetch
of new source
line
Match the
whole source
line
Skip the
matched part

13. Status line
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Source
line
Source
column
Length of
the selected
text
Proposed regular
expression for
the selected text

14. Key Preview
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1. Select key for
preview
2. Start key preview
3. Preview of selected key:
• Key range is underlined
• Key range is color coded
• Extracted text is bold

15. Preview
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1. Star preview
2. Preview of the whole file:
• Key ranges are color coded
• Extracted text is bold

16. Filtering results as XML file
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1. Run Filter
2. Filtering results as XML file

17. Creating a template
• Start the Template Designer
• Load a sample text file
• Create a template
• Save the template
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18. Filtering a text file
• Start the Template Designer
• Load a text file
• Load a template
• Run filter
• Save filtering results as an XML file
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19. Using CTF Templates with ECM
1. Install Configurable Text Filter
(CTF Templates.DLL)
2. Create and save a CTF Template
3. Apply CTF Template to text files
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20. 1 Install Configurable Text Filter
1. Register CTF Templates.DLL
2. Update the registry
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21. 3 Create and save a CTF Template
• Start the CTF Template Designer
• Load a sample text file
• Create a template
• Save the template in the ECM
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22. 4 Apply CTF Template to text
files
• Select CTF Template keys for a LCDF
• Add a file to a folder under the above selected LCDF
• Filtering results are available as file properties
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23. Select CTF Template keys 1/3
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Open LCDF
properties

24. Select CTF Template keys 2/3
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Select CTF Templates

25. Select CTF Template keys 3/3
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Select one or more
CTF Template
keys