Excalibur Technologies Corp, San Diego, California has announced version 6.0 of its RetrievalWare software. The company says it provides access to real-time, archival and legacy information resources, including news wires and Usenet news groups, multi- format text documents – including Structured General Markup Language (SGML) and the closely related Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) – word processing and electronic mail files, relational data, and groupware information stored in applications such as Lotus Notes or its own EFS document imaging mechanism. The new version provides a graphical view of available information resources, and can now search in French and Spanish. There are new wizards to create searching profiles and a Java programming interface enabling developers to create profiling and document handling applications in Java. Excalibur 6.0 is due by year-end on Unix and Windows NT, priced from $25,000. Excalibur also formally introduced its Visual RetrievalWare software for use with 6.0. The Visual RetrievalWare kit components include color, shape and texture feature extractors, feature vector indexing and retrieval, an image processing library, C libraries and headers, a Visual C++ class library, a Tcl/Tk interpreter, sample scripts and programs with source code, and HTML reference documentation.
