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Picolena 0.1.8


Picolena Picolena - Lightweight ferret-powered documents search engine written in Ruby on Rails

System Requirememts
Mac OS X
Download Details
Company Eric Duminil
Version 0.1.8
Post Date April 23, 2009
License Freeware
File Size 1.2 MB
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Picolena 0.1.8


Picolena - Lightweight ferret-powered documents search engine written in Ruby on Rails
Picolena is a lightweight ferret-powered documents search engine written in Ruby on Rails:
  • Just let Ferret index any directory you want.
  • Enter queries on your browser to get corresponding documents in a few milliseconds.

    Main features of Picolena:

  • it can index .pdf, .doc, .docx, .pptx, .odp, .rtf, .odt, .xls, .ods, .ppt, .html and plain text files will full text search, and offers a very easy way to add new extractors to index other filetype.
  • it is free as in free beer and as in free speech
  • thanks to Ferret, it is very fast
  • it keeps your data private. By default, only the computer on which it is installed can get access to the search engine. Other IP addresses can then be added to a white list.
  • it does not phone home. This claim is somewhat easier to verify on your server, with just a few lines of codes added, than on a Don't be evil black-box server.
  • it can be used to index any ftp, smb, ssh, webdav or local directory.
  • its user interface is available in English, German, Spanish and French.


    Requirements of Picolena:

  • Ferret
  • Ruby on Rails


    NOTE: Picolena is licensed and provided under the MIT/X Consortium License.