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Key features

Summary: eCatch allows accessing the multiple resources of Internet. Help files describe precisely the many features of the software.


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Thanks to eCatch, you will browse the Internet in a complete new way. Before eCatch was developed, you were used to jumping anxiously from one site to the other due to high local connection charges or slow surf sessions; moreover, surfing meant you lost time browsing and saving pages because you were asked during sessions to choose a location and a name... eCatch enables you to browse offline loaded pages. They will refresh themselves next time you connect provided that you click a determined link.

Build up a personal document database with your current platform and your URLs as starting points. eCatch updates that database on your hard disk and points out new documents. Next step could be you browse those pages offline through our integrated browser unless you prefer to start your regular software; moreover you can carry out plain-text searches within downloaded pages.


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  • Advanced search features according to specific criteria (inclusion, exclusion, number of full matches) within downloaded pages.
  • Offline form posting (query results are downloaded next time you connect).
  • Fine tuning of future downloads are done by simply clicking the links.
  • Update frequency of downloaded pages are manual or automatic (the sofware points out updated pages).
  • Agents manage your offline downloads (a wizard allows you to create one agent per topic so that you can perform different downloads each time).
  • Web pages, agents, directories, images and so on are displayed through a clear tree directory window easy to manage with a mouse. (pages and directories can be reorganized the way you want).
  • Many sort options and browsing features are available.
  • Accurate information is provided with respect to connections and document parameters.
  • Site ripping features combined to rich option menus : download entire sites and determine depth level, files to include, following server address or not...
  • Simultaneous downloads might amount to 50 (downloads are multi-threaded) in case the network reaches a saturation point (your modem is used to its maximum capacity, no matter when you log).
  • Export a complete agent, a site, a directory or isolated pages for external use, group browsing or press activities (LAN, floppy disk, CD Rom..).
  • Fast integrated browser : Html 3.2 compliant, displays animated gifs.
  • Manage and monitor close to 10000 pages per agent.
  • eCatch Connects, downloads and disconnects on its own.

eCatch processes automatically the above mentioned operations but never prevents you from deciding at long last how captures have to be performed (each document can be easily tuned, moved or deleted with no impact on other ones).

Free version has no time limit and allows you to download as many pages as you want; nevertheless, search features are inactive and exported pages are displayed with a banner (it is not the case when pages are displayed by eCatch). Registration turns free version into a full-powered version.

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