Flax is based on the Xapian search engine library, Python scripting language and CherryPy web application framework.

Key Benefits:

• Proven technology used around the world
• Cutting-edge information retrieval algorithms to make sure you find what you are looking for
• Scalable to hundreds of millions of documents, so the system can grow with your business
• High speed indexing and searching; one of the fastest search systems available.
• No software license fees, so highly cost-effective - you only pay for customisation and support
• Databases are uncorrupted in the event of a power failure - your data is safe
• Open source software ensures Flax users enjoy ongoing development, improvements and updates

Features:

• Windows, Mac and Linux platforms
• Build searchable indexes of:
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), Adobe Acrobat, HTML, RTF and plain text documents, and many other common formats
• Emails and content stored in Microsoft Exchange and other email systems
• Webpages from your own or external websites via controllable spiders
• Records extracted from existing databases (Microsoft Access, SQL, Oracle etc.)
• Give your users powerful search facilities including:
• Boolean search operators (AND, OR, NOT)
• Probabilistic Bayesian, wildcard, phrase and proximity search
• Faceted search and support for user tags
• Dynamic autocompletion, providing suggested search terms as the user types
• Automatic spelling correction of user queries
• Thesaurus and synonym support
• Search while an index is being updated - new documents are instantly searchable
• Auto-suggest additional search terms & related documents
• Restrict search results on-the-fly by custom field, date or numeric range
• Sort search results by relevance, date or custom fields
• Simple or Advanced search pages using a fully customisable interface
• Stemming for 14 different European different languages
• Administrators have full control of the system:
• Web-based administration system with secure logon
• View statistics and logs
• Create multiple collections of indexed data
• Simple replication of searchable databases for easy scalability
• Scheduled or manually controlled indexing
• Map source files to URLs
• Create custom metadata fields
• Fully customisable templates to for search pages and results
• Export results as XML
• Simple integration into existing architectures

Flax is a trade name of Lemur Consulting Limited, registered in England: 04259599
Registered Office: 20 William James House, Cowley Rd., Cambridge CB4 0WX