FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5.1

FoxTrot Professional Search 2.5.1 is widely known as a comprehensive and high-quality find-by-content solution which brings precision tools for finding the proverbial "needle in a haystack" directly within PDF, HTML, word processing, e-mail and rich-media content and metadata. The product has been especially well received in legal (law firm and courts), media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies and editors), mobile contexts (MacBook users with document collections) as well as by casual users stepping up from FoxTrot Personal Search or Apple's Spotlight.

By leveraging and extending Mac OS X's built-in Spotlight capabilities, FoxTrot Professional Search utilizes the latest Snow Leopard technologies, featuring document preview and full view capabilities, with secondary document-level search features. Users can manage multiple indexed collections effortlessly and time search index updates without even launching the application.

Version 2.5 introduces higher performance, an expanded timeline categorization as well as networked sharing of indexes: When customers purchase a 5-user license, the application automatically acts as a peer-to-peer indexing server. With a 10-user license (or more), customers receive a full fledged client-server product with a server component that can be deployed any Mac OS X or Windows 7/Vista/XP with file sharing enabled, as well as on XServe and the new Mac mini Server or Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2. This makes FoxTrot Professional Search particularly suited in networked environments where sharing archived documents and metadata is paramount.

Functions:

• Multiple categories of relevance-ranked results
• Document preview and full view, with secondary document-level search
• Multiple indexed collections and timed updates without launching the application
• Client-server access to peer-to-peer and dedicated CTM FoxTrot Search servers
• Worldwide Unicode language support FoxTrot Professional Search builds on years of experience in search functionality refined within CTM's PowerMail and FoxTrot Personal Search products, which continue to be enhanced.

1. Client access to FoxTrot Search servers: Beyond searching your own machine, FoxTrot Professional enables you let you connect to both workgroup-level FoxTrot peer-to-peer servers (enabled with 5-user licenses) and dedicated FoxTrot Search Servers (included with 10-user licenses and higher).
2. Document preview & secondary searches
   • In addition to Previewing or Quick Looking (10.5+) a document, FoxtTrot Professional provides a complete environment for reading documents in stand-alone windows, complete with a secondary search ability to hilight a distinct set of words.
   • For documents containing a table of contents, FoxTrot Professional will count and hilight results as found under each chapter.
3. Expanded metadata search keys: Beyond FoxTrot Personal Searches three search keys:
   • Contents, any metadata or file name
   • Any metadata or file name
   • File name
   • FoxTrot Professional offers four additional metadata search keys:
   • Name, subject or title
   • Author, contact or recipient
   • Keyword or comments
   • Other metadata
4. Faceless index updating: FoxTrot Professional contains a faceless background process which will honor the settings for automatic index updating even at times when the main FoxTrot Professional application is not running.
   • History, bookmarks and templates
   • FoxTrot Professional keeps a dated history of all searches performed and documents that it opens. Both can quickly be recalled by a double-click in the History section of the bookmarks window
   • These and other searches can be dragged for specific storage into the Bookmarks folder
   • In order to store only the criteriae elements of a bookmark for use as a starting block in a future search without actually performing the search itself, drag it into the Templates folder
5. Multiple Indices
   • Different kinds of data have distinct requirements for access and update. Reference material may be reindexed manually every fortnight, while frequently updated portions of your Documents or Mail folder may be best served with hourly reindexing.
   • By enabling the creation of distinct indexes for distinct "worlds" of data, FoxTrot Professional also lets you choose which context(s) to search within.
6. Multiple-criteria searches
7. Neighboring words search: FoxTrot offers a unique mechanism for selecting the proximity of words to be searched for.
8. Open and search web pages
   • FoxTrot Professional can be used as a specialized web browser; after using "Open Location…", you can use all of FoxTrot's document-level search features on the fly to quickly create a list of relevant, hilighted terms in a webpage.
   • Whereas Safari 3 will only enable the hilighting of one word or sequence of words, FoxTrot will build a list of occurences for every term or, if the string is between quotes, of a specific sequence of words. Leading and trailing wildcard characters (*) can be also be used to find terms.
9. Search string specifier and boolean operator popup menu: FoxTrot Professional's specifier popup menu determines how words typed into the search field are taken into account.
   • You can choose to:
   • Include all of the words
   • Include at least one of the words
   • Include an exact phrase
   • Include neighboring words
   • Not include words
   • Not include an exact phrase
   • Match a search pattern