dtSearch Corp., a supplier of enterprise and developer text retrieval software, announces Version 7.4 of the dtSearch product line.  dtSearch products instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet.  The dtSearch product line also lets developers add dtSearch’s terabyte indexer search functionality and file format support to Web-based and other applications.  The new version expands support to new Microsoft formats.

Overview.  All dtSearch products can index over a terabyte of text in a single index (as well as create and simultaneously search an unlimited number of indexes).  Indexed search time is typically less than a second, even across terabytes of data.  Along with the terabyte indexer, all dtSearch products generally share the same feature set:
•    over two dozen indexed, unindexed, full-text and fielded data search options                        
•    display of HTML, XML and PDF files with highlighted hits and with embedded images, links and formatting intact
•    built-in HTML converters for browser display of non-Web-ready content—database, word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, ZIP, CSV, Unicode, and other popular file types—with highlighted hits
•    XML-based distributed searching, including integrated display of local and remote content

The product line also embeds the dtSearch Spider, providing support for:
•    public sites, secure content HTTPS, password-accessible sites, and forms-based authentication
•    searching of Web-based content to any specified level of horizontal or vertical depth
•    searching of static content (HTML, XML, PDF, etc.) as well as dynamic content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.), with WYSIWYG display of native Web-based content with highlighted hits
•    integrated relevancy-ranking of Spidered and non-Spidered content (all with highlighted hits)

The new release adds MS Vista XMP metadata to the list of fielded data that the dtSearch product line (including the dtSearch Spider) supports.  The new release also adds support for XML Paper Specification and additional MS Office 2007 file types.   

Product line.  dtSearch Desktop with Spider instantly searches files on a PC.  dtSearch Network with Spider searches across a network.  Both instantly search and display with highlighted hits a wide variety of content, including:  email messages (Outlook, Outlook Express, Exchange, Eudora, .MSG, etc.) along with the full text of email attachments, MS Office, OpenOffice, PDF, XML, HTML, ZIP, CSV, Unicode and other content.  Through the dtSearch Spider, both applications can also add Web-based content to a local or network search.
      
dtSearch Web with Spider quickly publishes a large volume of instantly searchable data to an Internet or Intranet site.  The Spider expands the scope of the searchable database beyond a site's own data to content on other sites.  dtSearch Publish offers easy publishing of an instantly searchable document collection to CD, DVD, portable harddrive, and the like.  The product can also mirror an existing Web site on CD/DVD.
 
The dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine lets developers add dtSearch search functionality to Web-based        and other applications.  The dtSearch Engine also supports databases such as SQL.  And it provides developer access to dtSearch’s integrated file parser and file format support, including dtSearch’s WYSIWYG hit-highlighted search display of Web-ready files, and proprietary built-in HTML converters for non-Web-ready files (like OpenOffice and MS Office documents).  

The dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET supports C++, Java and .NET.  The dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET also includes a .NET Spider API, making the Spider functionality (described above) accessible to developers.  The dtSearch Engine for Linux provides C++ and Java APIs to developers.

The dtSearch product line generally offers over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options.  These include:  fuzziness adjustable from 0 to 10 (to sift through typographical and spelling errors), synonym/concept/thesaurus (both through a built-in thesaurus and through optional user-defined synonym rings), boolean (and/or/not), natural language relevancy ranking (by hit term frequency, density and rarity), positional scoring ranking, phrase, phonic, wildcard, bilateral proximity, directed proximity, stemming, numeric range, user-defined variable term weighting, and special forensics options.  The dtSearch product line also provides international language support through Unicode, covering hundreds of international languages.

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.  dtSearch offers a variety of royalty-based and royalty-free pricing options for the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine.  For more information, or to download fully-functional evaluation versions of any product, please call 1-800-IT-FINDS (or 301/263-0731), email sales@dtsearch.com or visit www.dtsearch.com.