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Corporate Snapshot

A leading supplier of text retrieval software, dtSearch Corp. develops, manufactures and sells the dtSearch® text retrieval product line. dtSearch products have been the Smart Choice for Text Retrieval® since 1991. The product line is known for its "industrial-strength" (PC Magazine) ability to instantly search terabytes of text.

The dtSearch product line includes end-user, enterprise and developer text retrieval products. The product line includes publishing capabilities, for publishing large document collections to Web sites or CD/DVD. The product line also includes Spidering capabilities, for remote site and distributed searching access.

dtSearch products have received multiple awards and hundreds of excellent press reviews. Fortune 500 companies and others with some of the most demanding document search needs in the world rely on dtSearch. 4 out of 5 of Fortune Magazine’s most profitable companies have dtSearch developer or multi-user licenses.

Typical corporate use of dtSearch product line includes general information retrieval, Internet and Intranet site searching, and access to technical documentation. Other corporate uses range from policy manual publishing to email filtering.

Large legal, medical, recruiting, and accounting firms are also common users of dtSearch products. For example, in the past two years alone, dtSearch Corp. has sold multi-user network or developer licenses to 3 out of 4 of the "Big 4" accounting firms. Government customers include defense, space and law enforcement agencies.

On the development side, some of the largest IT companies have embedded dtSearch in their commercial applications. Many high-traffic, content-rich Web sites also deploy dtSearch. A compilation of over 100 dtSearch developer case studies further details such usages.

dtSearch has a strong international presence, including sales to over 70 countries. (The product line supports hundreds of international languages, through its Unicode support.) dtSearch has multiple distributors worldwide, including coverage on six continents.

The company started research and development in text retrieval in 1988. Incorporated in Virginia in 1991, dtSearch Corp. began marketing the first dtSearch product in the first quarter of that year.

	over two dozen indexed, unindexed, full-text and fielded data search options
	display of web-ready content (HTML, PDF, XSL/XML, etc.) with highlighted hits and with all images, links and formatting intact
	searching of static content (HTML, XML, PDF, etc.) as well as dynamic content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.), with WYSIWYG display of native Web-based content with highlighted hits
	built-in HTML converters for hit-highlighted display of other popular file types (MS Office, OpenOffice, Vista XML Paper Specification (.xps), ZIP, etc.)
	distributed or federated search options, with integrated display of local and remote content

	public sites, secure content HTTPS, password-accessible sites, and forms-based authentication
	searching of web-based content to any specified level of horizontal or vertical depth
	searching of static content (HTML, XML, PDF, etc.) as well as dynamic content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.), with WYSIWYG display of native Web-based content with highlighted hits
	searching of static content (HTML, PDF, XSL/XML, etc.) and dynamic content (ASP.NET, MS CMS, SharePoint, etc.) with highlighted hits and with all images, links and formatting intact
	integrated relevancy-ranking of Spidered and non-Spidered content (all with highlighted hits)

Search options. Indexed, unindexed, fielded and full-text data search options include: fuzziness adjustable from 0 to 10 (to sift through typographical and spelling errors), synonym/concept/thesaurus (through a built-in thesaurus and/or through user-defined synonym rings), boolean (and/or/not), phrase, phonic, wildcard, bilateral proximity, directed proximity, stemming, numeric range, natural language/vector-space relevancy ranking, variable term weighting, positional scoring, field-based relevancy ranking, data classification and filtering objects, special forensics search options, and Unicode support for hundreds of international languages.

dtSearch Engine The dtSearch Engine for Win & .NET, now in native 64-bit and 32-bit versions, lets C++, Java, COM and .NET developers add dtSearch terabyte indexer and file format support to web-based and other applications. For example, the dtSearch Engine includes a choice of an ADO.NET API (including a native 64-bit .NET 2.0/3.0 version), a Java API, a C++ API and a COM API for indexing and searching SQL-type databases, along with associated BLOB data. The dtSearch Engine also provides a .NET API for the dtSearch Spider. The dtSearch Engine comes in a Linux version for C++ and Java developers.

Other dtSearch products. dtSearch Desktop with Spider instantly searches files on a PC. dtSearch Network with Spider searches across a network. Both instantly search and display with highlighted hits a wide variety of file types, including email messages along with the full text of email attachments. Through the Spider, both applications can also add web-residing content to a local or network search.

dtSearch Web with Spider quickly publishes a large volume of instantly searchable data to an Internet or Intranet site. The Spider expands the scope of the searchable database to static and dynamic content on other sites.

dtSearch Publish offers easy publishing of an instantly searchable document collection to CD, DVD, portable harddrive, and the like. The product can also mirror an existing web site on CD/DVD.

White Papers

TechXtend Reprint: “Methods of Integrating Full-Text and Fielded Data Search” Programmer's Paradise Reprint: “Mirroring - Searchable Web-Content on Portable Media” “Indexed vs. Unindexed Searching:  Distributed Searching * Email Filtering * Security Classifications * Forensics” “Crossing the Full-Text Search / Fielded Data Divide from a Development Perspective” “Unicode and Text Retrieval” "The Art of the Text Query"

dtSearch Corp.

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