Search Features — Search Types
All search options on this page work with indexed, unindexed and "combination" indexed/unindexed searching.
Basic Search Types
Phrase searching finds phrases like: due process of law.
Boolean operators like and/or/not can join words and phrases: due process of law and not (equal protection or civil rights).
Proximity searching finds a word or phrase within "n" words of another word or phrase: apple pie w/38 peach cobbler.
Directed Proximity searching finds a word or phrase "n" words before another word or phrase: apple pie pre/38 peach cobbler.
Phonic searching finds words that sound alike, like Smythe in a search for Smith.
Stemming finds variations on endings, like applies, applied, applying in a search for apply.
Numeric range searching finds any number between two numbers, such as between 6 and 36.
Macro capabilities make it easy to include frequently used items in a search request.
Wildcard support allows ? to hold a single letter place, and * to hold multiple letter places: apple* and not appl?sauce.
Fuzzy Searching
Fuzzy searching uses a proprietary algorithm to find search terms even if they are misspelled.
Search fuzziness adjusts from 0 to 10 so you can fine-tune fuzziness to the level of OCR or typographical errors in your files.
A search for alphabet with a fuzziness of 1 would find alphaqet; with a fuzziness of 3, it would find both alphaqet and alpkaqet.
Fuzziness is not built into the index, so you can vary fuzziness at the time of each search.
Concept / Synonym / Thesaurus Searching
Concept searching lets you look for fast and find quick, speedy, etc.
dtSearch offers variable levels of automatic synonym expansion based on a comprehensive semantic network of the English language.
You can also add your own thesaurus terms.
Combining Search Types
Nearly all search types are combinable.
You can make your search request as complex as you want.


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The dtSearch product line can instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site.
dtSearch products also serve as tools for publishing, with instant text searching, large document collections to Web sites or CD/DVDs.
over two dozen indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text search options
highlights hits in HTML, XML and PDF, while displaying embedded links, formatting and images
converts other file types — word processor, database, spreadsheet, email and full-text of email attachments, ZIP, Unicode, etc. — to HTML for display with highlighted hits
built-in Spider adds a third-party or other Web site (public, secure content, password accessible, etc.) to your searchable database
Spider supports Web-based content (HTML, PDF, XML, etc.) as well as dynamically-generated content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.)
General supported file types
SQL and similar data sources