Search Tools Product Report

WebSonar

Product Description

Price: $495 for personal version, Pro $995, additional users $200 each, site license $25,000.
Platform: Mac 68K, Mac PPC, Mac OS X

Document archiving and retrieval system for the intranet/Internet. Enables companies, schools, and governments to dynamically publish legacy documents, manuals, email announcements, library book card catalogs, databases and other archived materials by dropping their existing files into a folder.

Features

• Allows "tags" in HTML template documents which work as macros that allow a high-level of customization of the search results, including display of search phrases in non-English languages.
  
• Can create a single master index for thousands of folders on multiple volumes to improve search speeds.
  
• Supports indexing and searching of text files stored in large Oracle databases.
  
• Can dynamically rename files during indexing.
  
• Indexing and searching can be scripted using Visual Basic for Windows or AppleScript for the Macintosh.
  
• Can index images, executables and other non-text files to make them searchable by the metadata such as file name, date, user defined keywords, and sticky notes.
  
• Supports Text, PDF, MSWord, WordPerfect, and FrameMaker (MIF format), with solutions to index Excel and PowerPoint, and a special extension to export Quark documents for indexing.
  
• Scales to millions of documents.
  
• Search results are dynamically translated to html and a download link can be displayed on every page to allow the client to retrieve the original file.
  

Examples

• WisdomQuest eLibrary - Demo search for a collection of classic literature.
• Demo search of school library information.

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