IBM Corp’s Software Solutions Division is integrating its SearchManager text retrieval software with Excalibur Technologies Inc’s Text Recognition Server fuzzy logic text search tool. Text Recognition Server is part of the San Diego, California and McLean, Virginia-based firm’s XRS Recognition Software family, and is designed to enable users to undertake content-based indexing, recognition and retrieval of text data in heterogeneous environments. IBM will sell, distribute and market the resultant product for AIX and OS/2 workstations. Meanwhile, Excalibur will make Text Recognition Server and its new Text Recognition Library product generally available in the fourth quarter under AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, and OSF/1 Unixes. Text Recognition Library is a C-callable library for programmers wanting either to include indexing and text-retrieval capabilities into their applications, or develop their own text retrieval server for specialised applications. Searches can be conducted using words, keywords, phrases, synonyms, nested Boolean expressions and concepts, and natural language. A 100-user Text Recognition Server licence costs $625 and a 100-user Text Recognition Library licence costs $325. Text Recognition Server will also be available as a NetWare Loadable Module in early 1995, costing $435 for a 100-user licence.
