Differences between HTML Stripper and WebToData
The table below provides an overview of the different features of each program.
At first glance there appear to be only minor differences between the registered versions of HTML Stripper and WebToData.
WebToData is aimed at users requiring more powerful data detection tools. The differences are summarized in the following table.
HTML Stripper Lite is for those users who only need to strip code from html documents. It includes multi-file processing.
| Option | HTML Stripper Lite | HTML Stripper | WebToData |
| HTML Formatting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| HTML Code Stripping | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi File processing | Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Many files to one file database construction | No | Yes
(Limit) |
Yes |
| Data Sensing Technology | No | Yes | Yes |
| User Defined Data Definitions | No | Yes | Yes |
| Pattern Matching | No | Yes | Yes |
| *Extended Pattern Matching | No | No | Yes |
* Extended pattern matching permits the user to customize how WebToData looks for and extracts data. It is a very powerful feature often used by corporations to data mine web site data.
