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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
Registered Office: 20 William James House, Cowley Rd., Cambridge CB4 0WX