PDF iFilter Battle, second round
If you still remember the last round of our PDF iFilter battle, FoxIT won it. Now in this round, we bring in another challenger: TET PDF iFIlter. It is also avaliable on x86 and x64, free for non-commercial desktop use, will need a license for Server installation.
So here's the new result for file set II:
| | File Number | Total File Size(MB) | Avg File Size(MB) | Crawl Time(m:s) | Crawl Time(s) | File Per Second | Success | Error |
| FoxIT | 2676 | 2406 | 0.90 | 7:46 | 466 | 5.74 | 2759 | 0 |
| Adobe | 2676 | 2406 | 0.90 | 40:58 | 2458 | 1.09 | 2757 | 2 |
| TET | 2676 | 2406 | 0.90 | 13:48 | 828 | 3.23 | 2752 | 0 |
I also obtained an archive copy from People's Daily, from 2001 to 2006. ~20,000 PDF files, 13.4GB total. Tested on a 8 cores XEON box.
| | File Number | Total File Size(MB) | Avg File Size(MB) | Crawl Time(h:m:s) | Crawl Time(s) | File Per Second | Success | Error |
| FoxIT | 19890 | 13793 | 0.69 | 00:30:53 | 1853 | 10.73 | 19884 | 7 |
| Adobe | 19890 | 13793 | 0.69 | 05:19:04 | 19144 | 1.03 | 19887 | 4 |
| TET | 19890 | 13793 | 0.69 | 01:40:09 | 6009 | 3.31 | 19879 | 12 |
And licensing comparsion for production(USD):
| | Desktop | Server | 1-2 Cores
Per Server | 4 Cores
Per Server | 8+ Cores Per Server |
| Adobe | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free |
| Foxit | Free | Not Free | 329.99 | 589.97 | 1109.93 |
| TET | $119 for commercial usage | Not Free | 595 | 595 | 595 |
Summary
It is good to see another vendor joined this market. TET showed good performance, although still behind Foxit. But it's licensed based on servers not cores, the cost would be lower than Foxit if you have a typical 2 way quad cores box.
