Apple buys SchemaSoft for file translation technology
updated 03:40 pm EST, Tue March 22, 2005
Apple acquires SchemaSoft
Apple has , a small Canadian company that helps software makers translate rival file formats. "Apple has acquired assets from SchemaSoft, a developer of software components for facilitating digital information workflow," the Cupertino, Calif.-based company said in a statement to CNET News.com. Apple said it plans to use SchemaSoft's technology in future products, but did not offer specific details. SchemaSoft's tools can extract data found in a variety of formats including those used by Microsoft Office documents, along with Quark and Adobe Systems' Portable Document Format, the software maker states on its Web site. The tools can also output into those formats as well as into HTML and XML. Apple is already a customer of SchemaSoft, according to the Canadian company's Web site. Other well-known customers include Microsoft, Adobe and Corel.
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Apple said it plans to use SchemaSoft's technology in future products, but did not offer specific details.
Well, first and foremost, Spotlight! Since Spotlight can only index what it can read, you need file translation plug-ins for as many file formats as you can spit out.
Secondly, the iWork suite.