Xerox is not targeting the established search giants like Google, Yahoo!, MSN or Ask. However, the document management company has got into search market in a creative way.
It has announced the launch of FactSoptter, an intelligent and sophisticated search tool that reads documents instead of analyzing keywords to provide research results. It uses a text-mining tool to analyze grammar of a text document to explain meaning of words and context, accepting queries in everyday language.
Xerox explains the search tool can support any language, location, format or type ensuring easy to retrieve information from huge data bases in legal cases, fraud detection, drug discovery, risk management, and more.
The researchers at Xerox have written the software in the C programming language and developed modules in Java and Python making the software compatible with other applications.
