SearchInform SDK/API description

COM technology in the core of SearchInform SDK ensures the simplicity of its integration. Hence it doesn’t matter which programming language was used to devise the product our SDK is to be implemented into – the problem of compatibility is out of question. As of now our API is successfully integrated with Java, C++, Visual Basic, C#, Delphi, etc. You can take a look at successful implementations.

Our API indexes over 60 most popular file formats, messages from mail clients (Outlook, Outlook Express, TheBat, Eudora), mp3 and avi tags, as well as instant messengers’ logs (ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, etc.).

The technology operates with all the popular text file formats (txt, doc, rtf, pdf, htm, html), as well as supports adding the majority of the popular databases (Access, MS SQL, Oracle, as well as any SQL supporting database systems.

Information in corporate networks is often stored in various file formats and scattered all over the company’s data sources. The data volumes in this case are measured in dozens and even hundreds terabyte rather than in gigabytes. All this makes the indexing speed quite critical. SearchInform API keeps the indexing speed at 15 to 30 GB/ an hour, depending on the file format. Our API’s high indexing speed and ability to perform indexing in the background mode make it exceptionally convenient.

Full text search with due consideration for word order, location in the text, stemming and thesaurus make search even more convenient and quick.

SoftInform Search Technology, used in our API, is based on a unique mathematical model that analyzes the document’s structure and selects similar words, word combinations, sentences and text arrays. Similar search feature reduces to the minimum the time spent on searching for necessary information and provides accurate and relevant results.

Search for documents similar in their content. Regular phrasal search implemented in all the existing systems (desktop, corporate, as well as in the Internet) cope with their major task but are far from being perfect. You have to spend some time on picking key query words (which still won’t be precise enough) and browsing irrelevant documents in the results list. Search for documents with similar content realized with the help of a patented SoftInform Search Technology allows reducing to the minimum the time spent on searching for necessary information and provides accurate similarity results.

That is to say that we are not talking about quicker reaction of the system to the inserted query (in stead of five seconds, one), but about the fact that a person would have to look through fewer texts.

When using SearchInform, as soon as you find a relevant document, press the “search for similar” button and in the output you’ll get a list of documents with similar content and high relevancy to the query. So instead of spending hours on search for necessary information (looking through search results and picking out key phrases) you can do it in less than a few minutes.

Our support team specialists are ready to answer your questions and help you resolve any problems you might have with our API in the online mode.