OpenSearchServer
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| Developer(s) | Emmanuel Keller |
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| Initial release | Jun 08, 2008 |
| Written in | JAVA, C/C++, PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Search engine |
| License | GNU General Public License (version 3) |
| Website | www.open-search-server.com |
Open Search Server (OSS) is a search engine software developed under the GPL v3 open source licence. Built using open source software technologies, Open Search Server is a stable, high-performance search engine and a suite of full text search algorithms.
Features
- Multi-languages indexing: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
- Multi-lingual analysers slice sentences into words, then run lemmatisation algorithms on words based on the document’s language (singular/plural, gender, conjugated verbs, etc.)
- The crawlers go through web sites and file systems to rapidly and easily build an index.
- Numerous document formats are supported, such as XML, HTML/XHTML, Adobe™ PDF, Microsoft™ Word™, PowerPoint™, OpenOffice™, etc.
- The web interface is built around the Zkoss framework. It runs with the main Ajax browsers. This RIA-type interface is as comfortable to use as that of a heavy client.
- Configuration through a single XML file, which includes fields definition and the indexation options.
- Quick integration thanks to an XML interface via HTTP queries (XML over HTTP). Also PHP client classes are provided.
History
Open Search Server is a project of the french company InfoPro Communications. Open Search Server was originally developed in 2007 to meet internal needs. It soon became indispensable in a number of projects, and was made more generic to facilitate this. The software is now in the final phase of its maturation