dtSearch Desktop with Spider - Application (.NET Ready) - V7.20

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Instantly search your desktop, as well as selected Spidered Web sites. dtSearch Desktop with Spider instantly searches terabytes of word processor, database, spreadsheet, emails (with attachments), ZIP, XML, PDF, HTML, Unicode files and more. Over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fi elded and full-text search options. Highlights hits in all files; for HTML, XML and PDF, while displaying links and images. The built-in Web Spider provides a way to use other Web sites as instantly searchable resources.

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dtSearch Desktop with Spider V7.20

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What's New in V7.20

• New file parsers forffice documents, spreadsheets, and presentations (*.sxw, *.sxc, *.odt, *.ods, etc.), coveringffice version 1 andffice version 2 (the "Document Format for Office Applications")
• New file parsers for the Microsoft Office XML formats (Microsoft Word 2003 XML and Microsoft Excel 2003 XML)
• Added "ng containing folder" in right-click menu for retrieved items
• Improved reporting of errors that occur when copying files in Edit > Copy File(s)
• dtindexer.exe: added /caf and /cat command-line option to cache text (/cat) or cache original files (/cad), when creating indexes using the command line, and /recog to recognize an index.
• Added Help > Check For Updates feature to automatically download new versions

V7.1 Enhancements (dtSearch Engine)

• Added two new ASP.NET samples, one in VB.NET and one in C#, that demonstrate a search interface using a grid control for search results. The new samples are installed to C:\Program Files\dtSearch Developer\examples\asp.net. Please see the readme file in the project folders before trying tothem in Visual Studio -- a virtual directory mapping for C:\Program Files\dtSearch Developer\examples\asp.net has to be created first or Visual Studio will not be able tothe project.
• GetNthWordDocCount added to WordListBuilder to get the number of documents a word occurs in
• SearchReportJob enhancements: Added ContextSeparator; itUnformattedHTML output format, for easier generation of a synopsis; faster generation of search report when search results cover multiple indexes; dtsReportLimitContiguousContext flag to prevent very large synopsis when there are many hits close together.
• In the OnFound callback notification in the C++ and .NET interfaces, an application can veto individual items to prevent them from being included in search results. See SearchResultsItem.VetoThisItem (.NET) and DSearchJob::VetoThisItem (C++ Support Classes).
• dtSearchNetApi.dll uses registry type library information and delay loading to eliminate the need for dten600.dll to reside on the system PATH in ASP.NET applications.
• New TextFlags option to suppress automatic generation of xfirstword and xlastword (dtsoTfSkipXFirstAndLast)
• Options.MaxFieldNesting setting to limit the permissible depth of field nesting
• .NET API objects implement Dispose() for more deterministic release of allocated resources.
• .NET IndexJob.ExecuteInThread and SearchJob.ExecuteInThread use .NET thread pool instead of creating a thread.
• dtSearch Engine for Linux updated to the dtSearch 7.1 code base

V7.1 Enhancements (dtSearch Publish)

• "Standard" CDs (which use lbview.exe) can launch non-CGI programs from the CGI-BIN folder using a new URL syntax. See the "Standard CDs" help topic in dtSearch_Web.chm for details.
• "Standard" CDs can highlight hits in PDF files with Adobe Reader 6 or later (formerly Adobe Reader 7 was required).

Fixes

• dten600.dll: Reduced amount of stack required to process very long xfilter expressions
• dten600.dll: Fixed index merge bug that could cause a corrupt index merging into a large index without the "clear target" flag set
• dten600.dll: Bug caused MakePdfWebHighlightFile to return a blank string after unindexed search
• dten600.dll: The default value of Options.MatchDigitChar has changed from blank (disabled) to '=', to be consistent with the behavior of dtSearch Desktop.
• dten600.dll: Bug caused unindexed search of HTML field defined using comment tags to find the same search term outside of the field

The new release includes major enhancements to the dtSearch product line's display of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents. The new release also includes enhancements for indexing and searching Outlook message stores. Finally, the new release includes an additional feature for forensics usage.

Fast, precision searching

• Over two dozen text search options
• Most indexed searches take less than a second, even through very large databases
• Also has unindexed searching

Organization-wide reach

• Automatically recognizes word processor, database, spreadsheet, email, PDF, ZIP, HTML, XML, Unicode files & more
• FindPlusdistributed searching extends the reach of a single search request to remote enterprise servers
• Point and click setup

Hit highlighting

• Highlights hits in HTML and PDF while keeping embedded links and images intact
• Converts other file types to HTML for display with highlighted hits

The new release adds FindPlusdistributed searching, a Web spider, enhanced XML support and Unicode support, to improve access to information throughout an organization. The new release also offers API enhancements, expanding the dtSearch developer components utility for use with a wide variety of programming languages.

dtSearch products offer instant indexed (and slower unindexed) searching of large document collections. Proprietary indexing and searching algorithms maintain a fast rate of indexing and virtually instantaneous searching over very large document collections.

Over two dozen text search options can work alone or in combination for unmatched intelligent searching. Search features include: fuzziness adjustable from 0 to 10, synonym/concept/thesaurus, boolean, phrase, wildcard, proximity, stemming, numeric range, natural language relevancy-ranked by hit density and rarity, variable term weighting, indexed and unindexed searching, and more.

dtSearch products automatically recognize a wide variety of document types, including word processor, database, spreadsheet, ZIP, XML and more. The products highlight hits in HTML and PDF while keeping all embedded links and images intact. The products have built-in file converters to convert other popular file types to HTML for display with highlighted hits.

FindPlusdistributed searching is an integrated feature of dtSearch Desktop, Web and Network that conveniently allows a single search request to span everything from local drives to remote servers. Operating through a single user interface, FindPlus enables indexed searching of files and other data throughout an organization, without the need to collect the data in a monolithic repository. Because FindPlus uses an XML-based protocol for exchanging and aggregating search information, developers using the dtSearch Engine can also easily incorporate this capability into their own applications.

In addition, enhanced XML support provides a way to combine data from any source, while retaining the ability to search on field and table information. XML is increasingly becoming a universal data format. However, other search engines do not fully incorporate the hierarchical structures in XML data, effectively reducing XML to "flat" text. In contrast, dtSearch can perform indexed searches using the full range of dtSearch features across an entire XML database, or limited to a specific combination of fields or sub-fields, with no sacrifice in speed.

Other new features include:

• A web indexing spider, providing a way to use other web sites as instantly searchable resources.
• Unicode support, enabling indexing and searching of text data in nearly any language

New developer features include:

• Java support through a JNI interface
• More sample code in C++, Visual C++, Visual Basic and Delphi
• Improved multithreaded operation for use with ASP and .NET
• More sample source code to dtSearch Web, for both ASP and ISAPI-based versions
• Improved indexing and searching of ActiveX and other data sources (such as SQL databases), with hit highlighted search results display
• Search results serialization as an XML or URL-encoded stream