The Scanner

The Scanner is a discovery assistant. It finds candidates; you decide which of them matter.

Two ways in

• Website. Enter an address and FactLatch maps the site: it reads the sitemap and home page, looks at a diverse set of pages and a few files, and suggests what may be worth tracking. It does not read every page: it reads the most promising ones, within size, time and rate limits.
• Page or document. Already know what matters? Enter the address of that page or file and FactLatch reads that one target in depth, together with the files it links to. It does not map the rest of the site.

Strong matches and less certain discoveries

• Strong matches are the strongest candidates FactLatch found, never more than three. There may be none, one or two: it does not fill the list.
• When nothing stands out strongly enough, FactLatch says so and tells you what it did map. That is not a verdict on your site.
• Less certain discoveries are kept, not hidden away: you can often tell what matters to you better than a rule can. Filter them by values, tables, documents, schedules, people or sections.

What it can read

Web pages, and these file types: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, CSV, TXT, JSON and XML. FactLatch does not do OCR, so a scanned image inside a PDF is not read. A page that only builds its content in the browser may show little or nothing.

Limits

Scanning is free and does not use your tracked items, but scans have size, time and rate limits, and the site's robots.txt is respected. A scan describes what was read, not the whole site.