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Hibernate
An object relational-mapping (ORM) library for Java
The Hibernate projects offer a suite of powerful Java libraries to work with data. It is best known for Hibernate ORM, which provides relational persistence for Java models and is an implementation of the Jakarta Persistence specification. Hibernate projects do not consistently release binaries or documentation to SourceForge anymore. For up-to-date information, refer to the Hibernate website: * Hibernate ORM: https://hibernate.org/orm/ * Hibernate Validator: https://hibernate.org/validator/ * Hibernate Search: https://hibernate.org/search/ That website will also be updated with newer projects, such as Hibernate Reactive. -
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Elasticsearch
A Distributed RESTful Search Engine
Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that lets you store, search and analyze with ease at scale. It lets you perform and combine many types of searches; it scales seamlessly, and offers answers incredibly fast with search results you can rank based on a variety of factors. Elasticsearch can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from maps and metrics to site search and workplace search, and with all data types. -
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Greenstone
Digital Library Software
Greenstone is a complete digital library creation, management and distribution package created and distributed by the New Zealand Digital Library Project. There are two major versions of the software. Greenstone 3 is under active development, and is recommended for download. We also provide maintenance releases for its forerunner, Greenstone 2. Featured download not what you're looking for? Click "Browse all files" to access binaries and source releases of both versions. -
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The Lemur Project
Search engine and data mining applications and ClueWeb datasets.
The Lemur Project develops search engines, browser toolbars, text analysis tools, and data resources that support research and development of information retrieval and text mining software, including the Indri search engine in C++, the Galago search engine research framework in Java, the RankLib learning to rank library, ClueWeb09 and ClueWeb12 datasets and the Sifaka data mining application. -
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ResCarta
Archive your personal history
ResCarta Toolkit offers an open source solution to creating, storing, viewing, and searching digital collections. Applications in the toolkit let users create and edit metadata, convert data to open standard ResCarta format, index and host collections. -
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PDFBox is a Java PDF Library. This project will allow access to all of the components in a PDF document. More PDF manipulation features will be added as the project matures. This ships with a utility to take a PDF document and output a text file.
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Regain is a Java search engine based on Jakarta Lucene. It provides indexing and searching files for plenty of formats (HTML,XML,doc(x),xls(x),ppt(x),oo,PDF,RTF,mp3,mp4,Java). A TagLibrary eases integrating search results in your JSP based web page.
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Web data extraction (web data mining, web scraping) tool. It leverages well proved XML and text processing techologies in order to easely extract useful data from arbitrary web pages.
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Hyper Estraier is a full-text search system. It works as with Google, but based on peer-to-peer architecture. Using Hyper Estraier, we can construct a large-scaled search engine with cheap computers.
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Aperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems (file systems, web sites, mail boxes, ...) and the file formats (documents, images, ...) occurring in these systems.
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webExtractor is a Java application that is used for extracting specific content from web based HTML, XML, CSV, and free form text. The extracted data can be used for data gathering and mining purposes.
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OpenSearchServer Search Engine
An open source search engine with RESTFul API and crawlers
OpenSearchServer is a powerful, enterprise-class, search engine program. Using the web user interface, the crawlers (web, file, database, etc.) and the client libraries (REST/API , Ruby, Rails, Node.js, PHP, Perl) you will be able to integrate quickly and easily advanced full-text search capabilities in your application: Full-text with basic semantic, join queries, boolean queries, facet and filter, document (PDF, Office, etc.) indexation, web scrapping,etc. OpenSearchServer runs on Windows and Linux/Unix/BSD. -
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Command line application written in Java useful for automation of downloading process and filtering contents of downloaded files. jDownloader uses simple script file to configure downloading and filtering processes.
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Geoportal Server is a standards-based, open source product that enables discovery and use of geospatial resources including data and services.
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Web Spider, Web Crawler, Email Extractor
Free Extracts Emails, Phones and custom text from Web using JAVA Regex
In Files there is WebCrawlerMySQL.jar which supports MySql Connection Free Web Spider & Crawler. Extracts Information from Web by parsing millions of pages. Store data into Derby Database and data are not being lost after force closing the spider. - Free Web Spider , Parser, Extractor, Crawler - Extraction of Emails , Phones and Custom Text from Web - Export to Excel File - Data Saved into Derby and MySQL Database - Written in Java Cross Platform Also See Free email Sender : https://sourceforge.net/projects/gitst-free-email-ender/ Please install Microsoft OpenJDK to start the application https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk -
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YaCy Peer-to-Peer Search Engine
Decentralized Web Search Engine
YaCy is a free search engine that anyone can use to build search the internet (www and ftp) or to create a search portal for others (internet or intranet). The scale of YaCy is limited only by the number of users and can index billions of web pages. In p2p mode it is fully decentralized, all users of the search engine network are equal and it is not possible for anyone to censor the content of the distributed index. -
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A Java implementation of a flexible and extensible web spider engine. Optional modules allow functionality to be added (searching dead links, testing the performance and scalability of a site, creating a sitemap, etc ..
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This is an ***old archive*** of tools developed for facilitating the use of Creative Commons licenses and metadata. --- For the most up to date representation of any of the projects listed here, please see: http://creativecommons.org/project/Developer.
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Smart Cache Loader
Very configurable web downloader
Smart Cache Loader is a very configurable pure Java web grabber with special support for integration with Smart Cache proxy server. It can perform different loading operations based on URL mask, content-type, ... -
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High performance faceted/parametric search implementation that handles various types of semi-structured data. Written in Java. * We have moved to Google code: http://code.google.com/p/browse-engine, this page is to be deprecated.
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cpDetector is a proxy for codepage detection of documents. It delegates to multiple instances that try to detect the codepage by different techinques. A command line executeable is shipped that allows to sort documents by codepage.
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Système d'Exploitation Sémantique du Web ( Web Semantic Operating System). Moterako est chargé d'assurer, dans un environnement sémantique, la liaison entre les Utilisateurs, les Ressources et les applications.
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YouSeer is an open source search engine framework, which was built on top of other open source components. It’s part of the general SeerSuite framework. YouSeer utilizes Hereitrix as a crawler and solr as an indexing system.
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Sharehound is a network file systems indexer and searcher written in Java. Currently supports SMB file shares (i.e. MS Windows-based shares) and FTP resources. Web UI is used for search and crawl monitoring. RSS feed is provided for search results.
