Card Recon 3.0.2

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Setting Custom Search Rules

You can set up custom search filters to tell Card Recon to search for specific types of data.

To begin setting up custom search filters, look for the button labeled "No custom search rules" on the Card Recon dashboard.
Click "No custom search rules" to set custom search filters for specific types of data in Card Recon.

In the Search Filters dialog, click + Add. It should bring up a drop-down menu of all the search filters that you can add search rules for.

List of Search Filters

Search Filter Name Usage
Enable OCR OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scans images and detects text data. Enabling this will tell Card Recon to scan images for text data. This is a resource intensive feature.
Enable Voice Recognition

Enables voice recognition when scanning WAV and MP3 files. Voice recognition is a resource-heavy feature.

Support for voice recognition should be considered preliminary at this time. The feature is generically tuned and is limited to the English language only. Voice recognition accuracy will be particularly low in situations where an accent may exist.
Exclude location by prefix

Excludes search locations whose paths begin with a given string. This can be used to exclude entire folder trees.

For example, c:\windows\system32 will exclude all files and folders in the c:\windows\system32 folder, and all the files and folders whose paths start with c:\windows\system32.
Exclude location by suffix

Excludes search locations whose paths end with a given string. This is usually used to exclude files that end with a given string.

For example, led.jnl will exclude all files and folders that end with the string led.jnl from the scan.
Exclude locations by expression

Excludes search locations by expression. The syntax of this expression is as follows:

  • ?: A wildcard character that matches exactly one character; ??? matches 3 characters. If placed at the end of a file or directory name, will also match zero characters.
    E.g.: c:\V??? will match c:\V123 and c:\V1, but will not match c:\V1234.
  • *: A wildcard character that matches zero or more characters in a search string.
    • * matches all files in the directory.
    • *.txt matches all txt files in the directory.
Include locations within modification date

Includes search locations that have been modified within a given range of dates.

Card Recon will prompt you to select a start date and an end date. Files and folders that fall outside of the range set by the selected start and end date will not be scanned.
Include locations modified recently

Includes search locations that have been modified within a given number of days from the current date.

Card Recon will prompt you to select the number of days within which a file is modified.

E.g.: Setting the number of days to 14 will exclude files and folders that have been modified more than 14 days before the current date.
Exclude locations greater than filesize (MB) Excludes files that are larger than a given file size (in MB).
Ignore exact match

Ignore matches that match a given string exactly.

E.g.: Setting this to 4419123456781234 will ignore matches found during scans that match the given string 4419123456781234 exactly.
Ignore match by prefix

Ignore matches that begin with a given string.

E.g.: Setting this to 4419 will ignore matches found during scans that begin with 4419.
Ignore match by expression

Ignore matches found during scans if they match a given expression.

The syntax of this expression is as follows:

  • ?: A wildcard character that matches exactly one character; ??? matches 3 characters. If placed at the end of an expression, will also match zero characters.
    E.g.: c:\V??? will match c:\V123 and c:\V1, but will not match c:\V1234.
  • *: A wildcard character that matches zero or more characters in a search string.
    • * will ignore all matches
    • *123 matches all expressions that end with 123.
    • 123* matches all expressions that begin with 123.
Add test data

Report match as test data if it matches a given string exactly.

E.g.: Setting this to 4419123456781234 will report matches found during scans that match the given string 4419123456781234 exactly as test data.
Add test data prefix

Reports matches that begin with a given string as test data.

E.g.: Setting this to 4419 will report matches found during scans that begin with 4419 as test data.
Add test data expression

Report matches found during scans as test data if they match a given expression.

The syntax of this expression is as follows:

  • ?: A wildcard character that matches exactly one character; ??? matches 3 characters. If placed at the end of an expression, will also match zero characters.
    E.g.: c:\V??? will match c:\V123 and c:\V1, but will not match c:\V1234.
  • *: A wildcard character that matches zero or more characters in a search string.
    • * will ignore all matches
    • *123 matches all expressions that end with 123.
    • 123* matches all expressions that begin with 123.
Enable EBCDIC mode Enables scanning Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC). EBCDIC is a character encoding scheme that is typically used by older IBM mainframe systems.
Suppress Test Data Test data will not be displayed in scan report.

: Requires Card Recon Server