Searchdaimon
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| Searchdaimon ES | |
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| Developer | Searchdaimon As |
| Initial release | 2006 |
| Written in | C, Perl |
| Type | Search engine |
| License | GPL v2 license |
| Website | www.searchdaimon.com |
Searchdaimon ES (Enterprise Search) is an open source enterprise search engine for full text search of structured and unstructured data available under the GPL v2 license. Its major features include hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling and full document level security.[1][2]
First developed by Norwegian software company Searchdaimon As as a commercial solution, the company shifted to an open source development model in 2013, with the company offering commercial support and other services.[3] The company has its headquarters in Oslo and a research department in Trondheim.[4]
The technology has primarily been used for searching companies' internal data sources, but has also been used in an internet search engine.[5]
Searchdaimon ES can be delivered both as software, as a virtual or physical server[6] and as a cloud computing service at Amazon Web Services.[7]
Features:
- Crawl http, databases, Windows file shares, Exchange, SharePoint and local files[8]
- Extract data from many common document formats like Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat PDF
- Creates thumbnails for many common image formats like PNG, JPEG and TIF
- Support full document level security and integration with Active Directory[9]
- HTML administration interface[10]