OpenSearchServer

OpenSearchServer is a powerful, enterprise-class, search engine program. Using the web user interface, the crawlers (web, file, database, ...) and the REST/RESTFul API you will be able to integrate quickly and easily advanced full-text search capabilities in your application. OpenSearchServer runs on Linux/Unix/BSD/Windows.

Quickstart

One requirement

You need to have a JAVA 7 (or newer) runtime on your server

Download the last ZIP or the TAR.GZ archive:

http://www.opensearchserver.com/#download

Deflate the content to get the following files:

FILE opensearchserver.jar -> the main library
FILE README.md -> this file
DIR data -> will contains your index
DIR server -> will contains servers files
FILE start.sh -> Shell to start the server on Unix
FILE start.bat -> Batch to start the server on Windows
FILE NOTICE.txt -> the third-party license informations
DIR LICENSES -> Contains the detailled licenses

Edit the parameters

Optionally, can you change the parameters in the start.sh/start.bat script:

The allowed memory size
The TCP port (9090 by default)

Start the server

cd opensearchserver
./start.sh

Go with the interface and/or the API

http://localhost:9090

Useful links

Download binaries: http://www.opensearchserver.com/#download
The documentation: http://www.opensearchserver.com/documentation
Issues (bugs, enhancements): https://github.com/jaeksoft/opensearchserver/issues

Features

Search functions

Advanced full-text search features
Phonetic search
Advanced boolean search with query language
Clustered results with faceting and collapsing
Filter search using sub-requests (including negative filters)
Geolocation
Spell-checking
Relevance customization
Search suggestion facility (auto-completion)

Indexation

Supports 18 languages
Fields schema with analyzers in each language
Several filters: n-gram, lemmatization, shingle, stripping diacritic from words,…
Automatic language recognition
Named entity recognition
Word synonyms and expression synonyms
Export indexed terms with frequencies
Automatic classification

Document supported

HTML / XHTML
MS Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio, Publisher)
OpenOffice documents
Adobe PDF (with OCR)
RTF, Plaintext
Audio files metadata (wav, mp3, AIFF, Ogg)
Torrent files
OCR over images

Crawlers

The web crawler for internet, extranet and intranet
The file systems crawler for local and remote files (NFS, SMB/CIFS, FTP, FTPS, SWIFT)
The database crawler for all JDBC databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server, …)
Filter inclusion or exclusion with wildcards
Session parameters removal
SQL join and linked files support
Screenshot capture
Sitemap import