Price: $999 per server for dtSearch Web and dtSearch Engine. Desktop tool available for $199, intranet
tool for $800. CD/DVD tool dtSearch Publish available for $2,500. Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/.NET, Linux.
Features
Indexes dozens of file formats including HTML, TXT, XML, ZIP, MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, Open Office, MP3, TIFF, Outlook and Exchange message stores, more.
New version has support for MS Office 2007 expanded, XMP metadata, Microsoft XML Paper formats.
Supports fielded data.
Natively indexes Access databases, plus databases in XML, CSV, and DBF formats including FoxPro,
dBASE, etc. Indexes SQL databases with an included application. Handles BLOB data (binary documents in
fields.)
Robot spider follows links to discover pages.
Can index via HTTPS, Basic Authentication (user name and password), forms-based authentication.
Handles over a terabyte of textual data.
Performs scheduled incremental index updates.
Uses natural language algorithms.
Provides indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options. Can search across multiple
indices.
Supports phrase, Boolean, proximity and phonic searches, fuzzy searching, stemming, synonyms,
and wildcards. Offers variable term weighting options for search terms.
Unicode support permits indexing of many languages. Features such as fuzzy searching and stemming are available for English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Language recognition algorithms detect text in a variety of languages.
Results are ranked by relevancy, and can be instantly re-sorted by several different variables.
Keyword highlighting in search results.
Converts many file types to HTML for display with highlighted hits.
Parses text segments in data blocks recovered through undelete processes, and from corrupted documents for forensics information recovery.
Includes ASP, ASP.NET interfaces, and programming API.
Requires IIS (Internet Information Server.)
Articles & Reviews
dtSearch 7.0 ReviewSoftware in Review
:
December 11, 2005
by
Jem Matzan A review of the dtSearch suite of search tools including dtSearch Desktop and dtSearch Web.
dtSearch Desktop 7.01ZDNet: August 15, 2005 A review of dtSearch's desktop search tool, discussing many features common to all dtSearch products.
ZyIndex 5.21 vs. DTSearch
4.0 Software ShootoutTopLawfirm.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.
Review;
Search Technologies: dtSearchCRN (Computer Reseller News) Test Center,
May 7 2002 by Mario Morejon
Describes the whole line of dtSearch products. The dtSearch Index manager
can recognize many current and legacy file formats. The search engine itself
offers Boolean, natural-language, stemming, synonyms and fuzzy matching, and
a thesaurus. APIs are available for Visual Basic, ActiveX, C, C++, and Java.
Praises the documentation for detailed explanations of parameters and examples.
The spider has limited controls, mainly for depth of search. The Web Search
engine uses the same internal code, and displays results quickly. Converting
to HTML for Web viewing is slow.
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