Fess is a powerful and easily deployable enterprise search server. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platform that has a Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under the Apache License.

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Features

  • Very easy installation and configuration
  • Apache License (OSS)
  • OS-independent (Java application)
  • Crawls the web, file systems, databases and Windows shared folders (SMB)
  • Supports many document types, such as MS Office, PDF and Zip archives
  • Crawls sites behind BASIC/DIGEST/NTLM/FORM authentication
  • Uses OpenSearch as its search engine for scalability
  • Responsive search UI for any device
  • Browser-based admin console
  • Secure search with access control via LDAP/Active Directory
  • Single sign-on with SAML/OpenID Connect
  • Search results in JSON format
  • Search/click logs and statistics
  • Auto-complete (suggest)
  • Embeddable JavaScript library for existing sites
  • Learning to Rank support
  • OCR support
  • Internationalization and localization

License

Fess is distributed under the Apache License 2.0 and available for free.

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