Stellent, Inc.'s Content Components Division, a provider of component technologies for extracting, converting, and viewing unstructured data, has announced the release of Stellent Outside In Technology version 8.0. Stellent Outside In Technology is designed to enhance hundreds of software applications, such as enterprise content management, search, email management, antivirus and anti-spam security, data forensics, litigation support, product lifecycle management, portals, and compliance management. These companies use the Outside In software development kits (SDKs) to extract text and metadata, provide a high-fidelity view of file contents, and convert files into any one of 10 output formats.

Outside In Version 8.0 is a new release of the entire suite of Outside In products: Outside In Viewer Technology, Outside In Content Access, Outside In Search Export, Outside In HTML Export, Outside In XML Export, Outside In Image Export and Outside In Transformation Server. The new release features performance improvements, and new file format and operating system support. Additionally, it includes an architectural enhancement that consolidates graphics handling code into one module.

Outside In 8.0 includes a new SDK — Outside In Search Export — designed specifically for application developers in the growing search, indexing, computer forensics, and electronic evidence discovery markets. This product provides customers with search-specific transformation options, including a choice of output formats for converting files to XML, HTML, or text.

Version 8.0 also includes support for new file formats and platforms across all Outside In SDKs. In addition, Outside In 8.0 allows for the searching and indexing of MSG, PST, OST, MIME, and other email formats. The new version also provides support for Visio 2003; Project 2003; Corel Word Perfect Office Suite 12; Office 2004 for Macintosh; the Korean and Japanese word processing programs Hangul 2002, and Ichitaro 13 and 2004; and updates for Star Office Writer 6.0. The Viewer Technology SDK also includes enhanced bi-directional text display for Arabic and Hebrew languages. The Outside In 8.0 release adds support for four new platforms: HP/UX Itanium 64 bit and 32 bit, Linux Itanium 64 bit, and Windows AMD 64.
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