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Check your speedBoolean Search is a Mac OS X server application for searching the contents of plain and HTML formatted text, PDF, MS Word and RTF files. Boolean Search can be employed as a search engine for a public website on the Internet, or a personal or group owned collection of files on your own computer or LAN. A wide variety of search criteria and customizable response pages makes Boolean Search a very flexible alternative to Internet search engines or operating system services like Spotlight.
<h2>Key Features</h2> <ul> <li>Search forms and results are highly customizable with the use of "templates," standard HTML and AppleScript.
</li> <li>Generation of a "site index" which lists all the words contained in a file collection, and links to the files which contain them.
</li> <li>Various query-based search methods are available: exact, partial, approximate, case sensitive, proximity, phrase, regular expression pattern matching, etc.
</li> <li>PDF, MS Word and RTF indexing.
</li> <li>A wide variety of "context summaries" of found documents are available, and files are viewable with search terms linked and highlighted.
</li> <li>Spell-checking of queries and generation of new queries for the corrected terms (as in <i>"Did you mean?</i>)
</li> <li>Boolean Search contains an integrated web server so it can serve and process its own search forms.
</li> <li>Interaction with the program using a web browser and standard TCP/IP means you can either use Boolean Search on your own Mac-hosted web site, or as a personal search engine right on your own computer (especially when used in conjunction with the <a href="http://www.limit-point.com/BlueCrab/BlueCrab.html" target=_blank>Blue Crab</a> web crawler.)
</li> <li>Supports multiple directories and provides the ability to find files by name, kind, date, type, etc. together with a content query for more targeted searching.
</li> <li>Standard server realms support.
</li> <li>Search directory administration includes settings for word break characters, stopwords, synonyms, variety of file filters, "last visit cookies."
</li> <li>Customizable logging for each search directory.
</li> <li>Automatic re-indexing and caching can be scheduled in the Preferences window.
</li> <li>Optional browser-based administration enables remote configuration of the search directories.
</li> </ul>
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