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 multiple stemming language and noise word files at no extra charge. These were previously distributed as the Language Extension Pack . 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
Multicurrency checkout.
Includes upgrade to latest version and technical support.
Renew/Upgrade existing single-server dtSearch Web license to 3-servers for $2,005
Multicurrency checkout.
Includes upgrade to latest version and technical support for one year.
dtSearch Engine Programmer’s Manual
Tutorial Links
iProgrammer – dtSearch & C# series:
