Reviews of dtSearch®

• "Blindingly fast" -Computer Forensics: Incident Response Essentials
• "Ideally suited for rapid indexing by forensic investigators"-Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection
• "An incredible tool"-SC InfoSec Newsletter
• "Covers all data sources ... powerful Web-based engines" -eWEEK Labs
• "Searches at blazing speeds" -Computer Reseller News Test Center
• "Intuitive and austere ... a superb search tool" -PC World
• "Powerful text mining ... effective because of the level of intelligence it displays" -PC AI
• "Finding a virtual needle in a digital haystack is now much easier" -MS OfficePRO
• "A powerful arsenal of search tools" -The New York Times
• "The most powerful document search tool on the market" -Wired Magazine

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Product Line Overview

Search Across PCs, Networks, Intranets and Web Sites
Publish Large Document Collections to the Web or to CD/DVD

Proprietary indexing and searching algorithms provide fast indexing and searching over even the largest document collections. For maximum precision searching, the product line has over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text general search options, as well as forensics-specific search options.

After a search, dtSearch highlights hits in retrieved HTML, XML and PDF, with full display of embedded links, formatting and images. The products display retrieved word processor, database, spreadsheet, email (including attachments), ZIP, CSV, Unicode, and other popular file types with highlighted hits, after converting these file types (using proprietary built-in converters) to HTML. All products include multiple hit and file navigation options.

• dtSearch Desktop with Spider - instantly search your desktop, as well as Spidered Web sites.
• dtSearch Network with Spider - instantly search the many forms of data that exist across a large enterprise networks, along with Spidered sites
• dtSearch Web with Spider - quickly publish a wide variety of file types to a Web site; Spider adds third-party Web sites to a site's searchable database. (Wizard-based setup; optional ASP.NET and other code.)
• dtSearch Publish - quickly publish, using a built-in wizard, a searchable database to CD/DVD or mirror a Web site on CD/DVD. (The result is zero-footprint, instantly searchable CD/DVDs.)
• dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine - add dtSearch search features and file format support to applications. Win & .NET version supports SQL, Delphi, Java, C++, .NET and more. Linux version is for Java and C++ programmers.
  
  

Special Features

• dtSearch's over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options include: fuzziness adjustable from 0 to 10 (to sift through typographical and spelling errors), synonym / concept / thesaurus, boolean (and/or/not), natural language relevancy ranking, phrase, phonic, wildcard, proximity, stemming, numeric range and variable term weighting. The product line also includes special forensics features for parsing and searching large blocks of recovered data.
• A built-in Web Spider allows Web developers and desktop/network users to add remote Web site content to a locally searchable database:
  • searches Web site content to any specified level of page depth
  • crawls multiple servers, spanning all sites linked to a page
  • supports public, secure content (HTTPS), password-accessible, and dynamic-content ASP/ASP.NET sites
  • integrates fully with local-content searches, including unified relevancy ranking of local and Spidered data; highlighting hits in Spidered HTML, XML and PDF content, along with WYSWYG file displays; conversion of "Office" and other file types to HTML for display with highlighted hits.
• International language support provides:
  • indexing and searching of every character set supported by the Unicode standard
  • extensive alphabet customization options
  • option to add the Language Extension Packs from dtSearch's UK distributor (www.dtsearch.co.uk), including noise word lists and stemming rules, to find linguistically related words, such as in English learn, learned, learns, learning, etc.

The Smart Choice for Text Retrieval® since 1991

• 4 out of 5 of Fortune Magazine's most profitable companies purchased dtSearch developer or multi-user licenses in the past two years.
• Large enterprises typically use dtSearch products for information retrieval, Internet and Intranet site searching, technical documentation access, and embedding in applications for distribution.
• dtSearch is on the US Government's GSA Schedule.
• dtSearch also has distributors on six continents.
• See www.dtsearch.com for over a hundred developer case studies.

Pricing and Evaluations

• Pricing is $199 for dtSearch Desktop with Spider, from $800 for dtSearch Network with Spider, from $999 for dtSearch Web with Spider, and from $2,500 for dtSearch Publish for CD/DVDs.
• dtSearch offers a variety of royalty-based and royalty-free pricing options for the dtSearch Engine.
• Please contact dtSearch Corp. (1-800-IT-FINDS, (301) 263-0731) or any of our international distributors to obtain fully-functional evaluation versions.

White Papers

Articles (PDF format):

"Searching Beyond the Tower of Babel: Unicode and Text Retrieval"
"The Art of the Text Query"
"Distributed (Indexed) Searching: Evolution to XML"
"Web Based Data Management: HTML vs. PDF vs. XML"
"The New Paper Trail: Alternative Information Distribution"
"Crossing the Full-Text Search / Fielded Data Divide from a Development Perspective"