QL2 Software today announced the release of WebQL 3.0, providing image text search. This new feature extends search to the hardest to reach information often buried in the deep web. Online travel, government, pharmaceutical, financial services, retail, insurance, and many other industries use web mining and unstructured data extraction to fuel business and competitive intelligence, pricing optimization, revenue management, and enterprise search. WebQL 3.0 reads text represented as images in web pages and PDF documents using Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Data that was previously inaccessible, because it existed as an image, is now completely available for extraction and delivery in an actionable format (Word, Excel, CSV, etc.). WebQL 3.0 also expands file type support to include PPT, DBF, RTF, WML, XSV, image files and self-extracting zip files. Added file type support combined with the OCR capability enables WebQL to target, pinpoint and deliver virtually any information available on the web or inside the firewall and pushes QL2 Software ahead of the other players in this space. "The new capabilities and expanded strengths that come with this latest version of WebQL allow us to work smarter with our data without working harder," said Ross Jekel, a Software Architect at SourceLabs. "QL2's technology helps us provide our large customers with superior enterprise support and maintenance subscriptions for our open source Java systems." "Our commitment to continually innovate and offer the latest technology to our customers is clearly visible with the release of WebQL 3.0," said Chris Buckingham, president of QL2. "WebQL 3.0 can search images and extract the text, adding searchable information to queries without adding labor time. This means more effective and accurate data extraction for our customers, and we're proud to offer it." WebQL 3.0 has a number of new enterprise-grade features. New grid computing capabilities provide limitless scalability for large data integration projects. WebQL 3.0 works well with IBM UIMA and SOA so interoperability isn't an issue, and new security features ensure that important data is safely stored and transferred.