CNET Editors' review
TextSoap is a powerful utility with a single purpose: to quickly clean up text from any source, so that you can reuse it in other applications. A godsend for software developers and Web designers who have to frequently work with a motley variety of text, TextSoap can almost instantly remove extra spaces and "garbage characters" while still maintaining text formatting--and it can also automatically convert formatting like bold and italics into its HTML equivalent by inserting tags.
The app's clean interface looks much like any simple text editor, but you'll find most of its power in a slide-out drawer that contains TextSoap's "cleaners." You can click on a "SCRUB" cleaner to handle the most common problems (like removing e-mail forwarding marks and fixing line breaks), or you can choose from more than 100 different cleaners, collected in functional groups like E-mail, Markdown, and HTML. You can also create your own cleaners for customized work flows.
TextSoap is also available within other applications via Mac OS X Services, and several popular apps (including BBEdit and Coda) are supported through plug-ins. You can even integrate TextSoap into AppleScript and Automator work flows. Unfortunately, the app has a fairly strict trial version (results are truncated to just 3K) and a somewhat steep price tag--but there's no question that for certain users, TextSoap can boost productivity by eliminating a lot of repetitive tasks.
Publisher's Description
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TextSoap is a text processing tool that moves beyond simple find and replace, making it easy to clean out the annoying forwarding marks, invisible characters, and formatting that you often encounter in email, web pages, and other text documents. From cleaning text snippets in email messages, to scrubbing long documents, TextSoap makes it easy for all users of text-based software to quickly and effectively reuse information.
Only TextSoap lets you maintain style information on transformed text, or optionally change text based on its style or change the style based on the text content, providing total control of your text.
What's new in this version:
IMPROVEMENTS
- Additional polish when opening, closing, selecting sidebar tabs.
- Added iWorld,iPhone,iPad,iMac to common tech names capitalization cleaner.
Major preferences rework
- Renamed Universal to "Universal Menu", with new icon.
- Renamed Grep to "Saved Searches", with new icon.
- Moved Universal Menu tab to more prominent placement.
- Moved Clipboard Workspace & Extras options into General tab.
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