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Search Tools Product Report

QuestAgent

Product Information

Price :QuestAgent Licenses range from $120 to $900 depending on number of collected documents. Limited distribution license for 3000 copies: $490 Standard, $990 Pro. Unlimited distribution license: $1,950 Standard, $3,950 Pro. Subscription license with updates also available.
Platform: Java, should run on any Java 1.1 Platform, Windows.

Mainly designed as a CD-ROM/DVD index application. For web search, see naisQuest.

Features

• Mainly designed for CD/DVD content collections
• Full text and metadata indexing of HTML, Plain Text, PDF, MS Office and OpenOffice documents.
• Supports Boolean search, phrase search, proximity, and stemming.
• Searches across multiple document collections.
• Multiple language support: Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian and Swedish. Also handles Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• Highlights search terms and phrases in HTML documents.
• Enables Unicode, single-byte and double-byte character sets.
• Customizable stop word list, text tokenization and term filtering.
• Customizable search interfaces available. QuestAgent Applet API accessible from JavaScript.
• Provides GUI and command line administration tools.

Examples

• Iowa Department of Transportation Electronic Reference Library - Collection of Iowa Department of Transportation specifications, manuals, standards, and other documentation.
• Overseas Development Institute RAPID - Site by an independent UK think-tank on international development and humanitarian issues on Research and Policy in Development.