[Zope-Annce] [ANN] TextIndexNG 1.0 final released

Andreas Jung andreas@andreas-jung.com
Wed, 29 May 2002 20:08:16 -0400


I am pleased to announce the final release of TextIndexNG V 1.0.
 
TextIndexNG is a pluggable index for the ZCatalog that enhances 
the full text indexing capabilities of Zope.

Features

  - support for document converters (HTML, PDF, 
    WinWord, PowerPoint, Postscript). Custom
    converters can be easily added

  - stemmer support for 12 languages

  - support for right truncation and wildcards

  - similarity search (soundex, metaphone support)
    (for english) 

  - NEAR search

  - phrase search

  - pluggable query parsers (two parsers included)

  - stop words support

  - new 'test' tab for interactive testing

  - faster than Zopes TextIndex

  - compatible with ASCII and all eight bit charactersets 
   

Requirements

  - Zope 2.5 or Zope CVS trunk checkout


Documentation
 
  - http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/wiki


Download

  - http://www.zope.org/Members/ajung/TextIndexNG/

Installation

  - The installation is described in the Wiki (see Documentation)

Changes since RC1

  * code cleanup

  * re-added wildcard search

Contact

  - Andreas Jung, Email: andreas at andreas-jung.com