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Enterprise Search Server: |Fess|
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What is |Fess| ?
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|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.

.. figure:: ../resources/images/en/demo-1.png
   :scale: 100%
   :alt: Demo
   :figclass: side-by-side
   :target: https://search.n2sm.co.jp/

   Demo (Default)

.. figure:: ../resources/images/ja/demo-2.png
   :scale: 100%
   :alt: Code Search
   :figclass: side-by-side
   :target: https://codesearch.codelibs.org/

   Source Code Search


|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
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- :doc:`Fess 13.5.0 <downloads>` (zip/rpm/deb packages)

Features
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-  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
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2020-01-01
    `Fess 13.4.4 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.4.4>`__ Released

2019-12-21
    `Fess 13.5.0 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.5.0>`__ Released

2019-11-21
    `Fess 13.4.3 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.4.3>`__ Released

2019-11-07
    `Fess 13.4.2 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.4.2>`__ Released

2019-10-31
    `Fess 13.4.1 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.4.1>`__ Released

2019-10-10
    `Fess 13.4.0 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.4.0>`__ Released

2019-09-30
    `Fess 13.3.2 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.3.2>`__ Released

2019-08-31
    `Fess 13.3.1 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.3.1>`__ Released

2019-08-22
    `Fess 13.3.0 <https://github.com/codelibs/fess/releases/tag/fess-13.3.0>`__ Released

:doc:`More news <news>`...

Fess Site Search
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`Fess Site Search <https://fss-generator.codelibs.org/docs/manual>`__ is Google Site Search alternative.

X-Pack Support
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`Fess X-Pack <https://github.com/codelibs/fess-xpack>`__ provides a feature to support X-Pack.

Support Service
===============

`N2SM, Inc. <https://www.n2sm.net/en/>`__ provides support services for Fess as below.

- N2 Search: Fess based Enterprise Search Software

- `Consulting service <https://www.n2sm.net/en/support/fess_support.html>`__


.. |image0| image:: ../resources/images/en/demo-1.png
.. |image1| image:: ../resources/images/en/demo-2.png


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