dtSearch Engine – Windows 32 & 64 bit
Royalty-free & royalty based licensing to suit applications from a single-server to high volume distribution in your own products
Proven Technology
- Hundreds of commercial applications incorporate the dtSearch Engine. See Case Studies page
- dtSearch Desktop, dtSearch Network, dtSearch Publish, and dtSearch Web all use the same dtSearch Engine technology that is licensed to developers
- dtSearch Corp has been producing search and retrieval software since 1991
Maximum Programmer Flexibility
- Advanced multi-threaded operation – see Intel Partner Success Story
- Extensive sample source code:
.NET Standard
ASP.NET 1.1 – 4.0
function-call interface for C++ and Visual C++
JNI for Java
ADO.NET for database applications
COM interface for Visual Basic, ASP and Delphi - Sample code in all supported languages – including sample Microsoft Azure application
Unparalleled Intelligent Searching
API for over twenty five precision search options:
- Boolean, phrase, wildcards, proximity, stemming, numeric range, regular expressions, natural language relevancy-ranked by hit density and rarity, and variable term weighting, synonym/concept/thesaurus, adjustable fuzziness
- Search options can be used alone or in almost any combination regardless of complexity
- Proprietary indexing & search algorithms engineered for scalability
- Indexed search time is generally less than a second
- Optimized indexing maintains consistent speed over very large document collections – over 1Tbyte of data per index
- Unindexed search option for filtering purposes
Instant Support for Multiple File Types
- Built-in support for PDF, PDF 2.0, HTML, XML, word processor, database, spreadsheet, e-mail, ZIP, and more
- Unicode to support all written languages
- Multi-colour highlighted hits with multiple hit and document navigation options in all supported file types
- Search hits in HTML & PDF are highlighted on the original document – embedded links, images & formatting appear exactly as in original
- Other file types are converted to HTML for hit-highlighted display in a Web browser
- Spider .NET API to index local or remote static or dynamic Web sites, SharePoint & other Web based CMS
- Index sites to any level – support for public and private or secure online content, including log-ins & forms-based authentication. Automatic spidering of sitemap.xml files
Extensive Field & Database Support
- Automatically supports fields, document properties & summary information – along with full-text search – in HTML, PDF, MS Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint… see full list
- Complete hierarchical field structures in XML for searching specific combinations of fields & sub-fields as well as full-text
- Sample ADO database indexing code provides indexing & searching of SQL & other data sources
- Hit highlighting, as well as multiple hit & file navigation options in all above
IMPORTANT: Following a license agreement between dtSearch UK and dtSearch Corp in April 2022, dtSearch Engine from version 2022.02 will include all the stemming language/noise word files previously distributed as the Language Extension Pack at no extra charge. See dtSearch Engine Beta Release Notes
Download 30-Day Trial (Win)
Please contact us for a password and advice on licensing or beta testing.
dtSearch UK offer discounts on multiple platform (Win, Linux, macOS) licenses.
D763 – dtSearch Engine (Win)
3-server license
D76 – dtSearch Engine (Win)
Additional servers 4+
D763 – Renew existing 3-server license for further year.
$1,175 ($875 before March 1)
Multicurrency checkout.
Includes upgrade to latest version and technical support.
Renew/Upgrade existing single-server dtSearch Web license to 3-servers for $2,005 ($1,500 before March 1).
Multicurrency checkout.
Includes upgrade to latest version and technical support for one year.
dtSearch Engine Programmer’s Manual
Tutorial Links
iProgrammer – dtSearch & C# series: