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ZyIndex

Product Information

Platform: Windows
Price: Contact company, with scanning module, seems to be under $2000

ZyIndex is not quite a search engine -- it's a research tool for complete recall, appropriate in situations where any missing data could be catastrophic. It's part of Zylabs Content, Records, and Knowledge Management systems, specializing in compliance, Legal Firms, Intelligence and Law Enforcement, Financial back office and related fields.

Features

• Fast indexing of over 250 file formats, including HTML, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Integrates with ZyScan to make scanned documents searchable.
• Scheduled updating.
• Wizard and templates for controlling indexing.
• Indexes word position for better relevance ranking.
• Scales to10 million pages, gigabytes of data.
• Translated products for English, German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portuguese, Turkish, Greek, Cyrillic, and Arabic.
• Over 200 more languages are supported, including all European languages, Baltic, African, Romanized Asian and South American languages.
• Can publish to CD-ROM, DVD and external disks, along with free search application.
• Supports NTFS security or optional module to integrate with Zylab access control system.
• Provides a complex set of tools for working with results sets, including saved searches and similarity searches.

Articles and Reviews

• ZyIndex 5.21 vs. DTSearch 4.0 Software Shootout TopLawfirm.com, approx. January 10 2000 by Aaron P. Morris.
  Describes the author's experience testing two full-text search engines on a pleadings directory of 250 documents and 2.5 MB. Both programs had fast indexing and retrieval and many search features such as Boolean queries, natural language queries, stemming and similarity. The Author found dtSearch more intuitive, with more helpful tools for indexing and display on the search results, but limited documentation. ZyIndex was more difficult to install, and includes separate indexing and query applications. It has powerful and easy-to-use hypertext linking tools and annotations.
  
  
• DoD's bugs get stuck on Web Government Computer Networks, September 15, 1997 by Bill Murray.
  Describes how the Defense Pest Management Information Analysis Center uses the ZyIndex Web Server.
  
  
• Text Retrieval Software: AskSam, Idealist, Isys, Zyindex Law Technology Journal, October 1993 by Wiebina Heesterman
  Rather old but nice description of how lawyers can use Zyindex.
  

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