Package: swish++ (6.1.5-6)

Simple Document Indexing System for Humans: C++ version

SWISH++ is a Unix-based file indexing and searching engine (typically used to index and search files on web sites). It was based on SWISH-E although SWISH++ is a complete rewrite.

SWISH++ features:

  * Lightning-fast indexing
  * Indexes META elements, ALT, and other attributes
  * Selectively not index text within HTML or XHTML elements
  * Intelligently index mail and news files
  * Index Unix manual page files
  * Apply filters to files on-the-fly prior to indexing
  * Index non-text files such as Microsoft Office documents
  * Modular indexing architecture
  * Index new files incrementally
  * Index remote web sites
  * Handles large collections of files
  * Lightning-fast searching
  * Optional word stemming (suffix stripping)
  * Ability to run as a search server
  * Easy-to-parse results format

Tags: Implemented in: C++, Perl, User Interface: interface::web, role::program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: Searching, World Wide Web: web::cgi, works-with-format::html, Works with: Text

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