Software Characteristics
Semantic Text Analysis features (Tropes)
- Automatic generation of hierarchical keywords (thesaurus generation)
- Automatic semantic and syntactic ambiguity solving
- Automatic semantic analysis and categorization
- Three-layer automatic concept classification
- Text Summarization
- Chronological discourse analysis
- Natural Language Thesaurus Manager with ready-to-use classifications
- Minimum recommended size for a text: less than 1 page (1 Kb),
- Maximum recommended size for a single text: 5,000 pages (50 Mb),
- Average analysis throughput: from 250 Kb to 1 Mb/second (Pentium 3.2 GHz, single processor).
Semantic Search Engine & Desktop Search features (Zoom)
- Automatic generation of hierarchical keywords (thesaurus generation)
- Natural Language Search with ambiguity solving
- Automatic information filtering (based on a pertinence threshold)
- Similarity Search with controlled vocabularies
- Massive data mining analysis (Text Mining)
- Search improvement for the references (nouns, trademarks and proper names)
- Integrated Web Spider
- Maximum number of indexed folder structures: unlimited
- Average indexing throughput: from 1 to 4 Gb/hour (Pentium 3.2 GHz, single processor, files on a local HDD)
Software requirements
- Microsoft Windows 2000, XP or Vista
- Word processing software (optional)
- Spell checker (optional)
- Spreadsheet (optional), Microsoft Excel is required for some analysis reports
- Web browser (optional), Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 6 (or above)
- Adobe Acrobat (optional)
Hardware requirements
- PC computer (Pentium III or compatible)
- CD-ROM or DVD-ROM Drive
- XGA (1024x768) graphic display
- A free USB port
Minimum recommended configuration
| Software |
Processor |
RAM memory |
Disk space |
System (3) |
| Tropes basic (1) |
200 MHz |
256 Mb |
50 Mb |
Win 2000, XP or Vista |
| Tropes Zoom (2) |
733 MHz |
512 Mb |
60 Mb |
Win 2000, XP or Vista |
| Overtext Index |
2 GHz |
1024 Mb |
2 Gb |
Win 2000, XP or Vista,
Dedicated Hardware appliance |
(1) Under Windows 2000 and XP it is advisable to install a minimum of 512 Mb of RAM for optimum performance.
(2) 1 Gb Mb of RAM and 1 Gb of swapfile are recommended to perform decision-making analysis (on a significant number of indexed items) with Tropes Zoom.
(3) Microsoft recommends 1 Gb of RAM memory and a recent graphic card to enable the Windows Vista Aero interface.
Maximum capacity (theoretical)
| Software |
Text size |
Number of files |
Number of words |
Raw Database Size |
| Tropes Zoom LE |
32 Kb |
100 |
100,000 |
100 files |
| Tropes |
100 Mb |
1 |
10,000,000 |
- |
| Zoom |
100 Mb |
4,000,000 |
Unlimited |
200 Gb |
| Overtext Index |
100 Mb |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
By "unlimited", we mean that the theoretical capacity of these software packages widely exceeds what it is possible to handle on a present-day computer. Your computer naturally has limited capacities.
For Zoom, we show the theoretical maximum capacity for a single folder. But you can index an unlimited number of folder structures.
By Raw Database size, we mean the maximum theoretical capacity in terms of text files indexed by the software in a single folder. Of course, it may require terabytes of disk space.
Languages
| Language |
Tropes Basic
(Professional) |
Tropes Zoom
Limited Edition |
Tropes Zoom
(Professional) |
Overtext Index |
| English |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| French |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Spanish |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Portuguese |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Brazilian |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| German |
unavailable (1) |
unavailable (1) |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
| Italian |
unavailable (1) |
unavailable (1) |
Yes (1) |
Yes (1) |
(1) Language in course of finalization, available under certain conditions: contact us.
Other features
- File formats supported: Adobe PDF, ASCII, ANSI, HTML, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft WordML (Word XML), RTF, XML, SGML and Macintosh raw texts
- Automatic extraction of Microsoft Outlook messages via an external utility
- Automatic exportation of the results to other software
- Indexing engine in batch mode (Overtext Index)
- Win32 Application Programming Interface (Overtext Index)
- Real time XML output interface (Overtext Index)
- Distributed fault-tolerant and load-balancing Interface (contact us)
- Runtime, operation on Intranet, HTML generation (contact us)
- Some features (for example, very voluminous Text Mining) may require the use of additional statistics software, data mining software and/or a RDBMS
