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ARTS PDF Search

A search engine specially designed for PDF (Adobe Acrobat) documents, the engine is based on dtSearch.

Product Information

Platform: Windows
Price: approximately $1300

• Indexes and searches metadata as well as free text
• Indexes HTML, XML and office office documents (including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, ZIP, Corel WordPerfect, etc.).
• Will highlight matched search terms and phrases within PDF files.
• Downloads just the pages with matches rather than the whole PDF document.
• Designed primarily for Intranets
• Indexes can be managed from the Index Management interface (stand alone UI, now works without Acrobat).
• COM interface wraps indexing and querying functionality, and allows for developer customization. 
• Customizable synomym list and stemming dictionary.

Examples

• Electric Book Company - online books in PDF
• CASTI.ca - engineering and science portal from Canada

last update 2004-06-25