Enterprise Search Server: Fess What is Fess ? Fess is very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server

Oct 17, 2019

Enterprise Search Server: Fess

Enterprise Search Server: Fess

What is Fess ?

Fess is very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server

. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platforms, which have Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under Apache license.

Demo

Fess is Elasticsearch-based search server, but knowledge/experience about Elasticsearch is NOT needed because of All-in-One Enterprise Search Server. Fess provides Administration GUI to configure the system on your browser. Fess also contains a crawler, which can crawl documents on Web/File System/DB and support many file formats, such as MS Office, pdf and zip.

Download

Fess 13.4.0 (zip/rpm/deb packages)

Features

Very Easy Installation/Configuration
Apache License (OSS)
OS-independent (Java Application)
Crawler for Web/File System/DB/Windows Shared Folder(SMB)
Support many document types, such as MS Office, PDF, Zip archive,…
Support a web page for BASIC/DIGEST/NTLM/FORM authentication
Contain elasticsearch as a search engine (unlimited scalability)
Provide UI as a responsive web design (support any device)
Provide a browser based administative page (admin console)
Support secure search (access control with LDAP/Active Directory/SSO)
Support JSON/GSA format of search results
Provide search/click log and statistics
Provide auto-complete(suggest)
Provide embedded JavaScript library(migration from Google Site Search)
Learning To Rank support
OCR support
Internationalization/Localization

News

2019-10-10: Fess 13.4.0 Released
2019-09-30: Fess 13.3.2 Released
2019-08-31: Fess 13.3.1 Released
2019-08-22: Fess 13.3.0 Released
2019-08-01: Fess 13.2.1 Released
2019-07-04: Fess 13.2.0 Released
2019-07-04: Fess 13.0.2 Released
2019-06-22: Fess 13.1.1 Released

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Fess Site Search

Fess Site Search is Google Site Search alternative.

X-Pack Support

Fess X-Pack provides a feature to support X-Pack.

Support Service

N2SM, Inc. provides support services for Fess as below.

N2 Search: Fess based Enterprise Search Software
Consulting service

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Enterprise Search Server: Fess What is Fess ? Fess is very powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server

Enterprise Search Server: Fess

What is Fess ?

. You can install and run Fess quickly on any platforms, which have Java runtime environment. Fess is provided under Apache license.

Download

Features

News

Fess Site Search

X-Pack Support