You can use OpenSearchServer, a comprehensive suite of software, to create any kind of Search-based application. The crawler in OpenSearchServer will allow you to include web pages, documents and database content.

OpenSearchServer is the perfect solution, not only for specialists in full text search methods, but also for professional developers who have not yet tried these technologies, it allows them to enter this field easily. It is built as a series of tabs, so that even when you are creating the most sophisticated applications, you will just need to tick boxes and enter some information, there’s no need to write a single line of code. Simply concentrate on configuring your data and be ready to use analyzers to help you finish the job.

You will have full access to all of the components of our search engine. This is the most important feature that we wanted to offer you. It means that, instead of having to accept fixed parameters and options set by us, you will have total freedom to customize any parameters to perfectly match the needs of your application. You will never face a black box…

OpenSearchServer will allow you to create any kind of Search applications: Web search (internet, intranet, extranet), desktop and networked search, portable search for distributing CD/DVD. OpenSearchServer was developed in such a way that you can do all of these things as simply as possible.

Available for developers as an Open Source application on Sourceforge since April 2009, OpenSearchServer is the first of its category to offer such a complete package, providing professional-grade results:

• A crawler allows you to index web pages, documents from files on local and remote systems and contents from any JDBC Database, such as Oracle, MySql, and Microsoft SQL Server and more,
• Full text analyzers and filters allowing optimized and efficient searches in 16 languages and indexing performance,
• An indexer that creates, updates the index and presents the answers to queries using the most efficient algorithms for best performance and response times,
• Html renderer allowing an easy integration of the Search box in an html/xhtml page, working with php and .Net, client library and xml over http API.
• Parsers allowing you to get content and metadata from most documents and formats, such as MS Office, OpenOffice, html/xhtml, xml, Adobe pdf, rtf, txt, mp3/4, wav, torrents and more.
• A series of caches to accelerate processes and deliver powerful search applications,
• A monitoring and administration module offering an alerting service which checks that your index is always updated and working well and that the necessary hardware resources are available.
• An integrated Scheduler service can be used to create simple or complex jobs and run them automatically.
• Comprehensive online documentation to provide you all the help you might need when learning to use features and creating your applications,
• Advanced functionality: faceting, clustering, filters, snippets, synonyms, stopwords, categorization, “find similar”, automatic thumbnail screenshot inclusion,
• An OpenSearchServer Drupal Module, a Wordpress module.

You can also discover the features list of OpenSearchServer Community Edition v 1.2.

Minimum requirements for OpenSearchServer application:

• Linux, Solaris, MacOS
• Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 or server editions
• 32 or 64 bits
• Java Virtual Machine version 5 or 6

OpenSearchServer user’s desktop should be equipped with any Ajax-compatible browser