Topics

Building and Maintaining Indexes	Overview of the process of creating and updating indexes.
Databases and Fields	Indexing and searching databases and meta-data in documents.
Definitions	Definitions.
File Parsers	dtSearch includes document filters for Office documents, PDF, HTML, emails, and more.
Highlighting Hits	How to display retrieved documents with hits highlighted.
Installing the dtSearch Engine	How to install the dtSearch Engine with your application.
Limiting searches with SearchFilters	The SearchFilter object can be used to limit searches to a complex subset of a document collection, with minimal search-time overhead.
Monitoring Index Jobs	How to monitor the progress of an index update.
Multithreaded Indexing and Searching	Rules for multithreaded use of the dtSearch Engine.
Options	How to use option settings to control indexing and searching.
Samples	Sample applications.
Search Settings	Options to control the processing of searches
Sorting Search Results	How to sort search results after a search
Search Requests	Search request syntax and features.
Recognition of Dates, Email Addresses, and Credit Card Numbers	dtSearch includes an option to automatically recognize dates, email addresses, and credit card numbers in text during indexing.
Relevance	dtSearch provides several mechanisms to control how documents are scored for relevance during a search.