Searching for Africa!

Ambrose Consulting is the only authorized reseller of the full dtSearch® product range in South Africa, providing text retrieval solutions for 20 years. More recently, our coverage area has grown to include the entire African continent and some Arabian Peninsula countries.

We pride ourselves on using our long experience assisting customers across a wide range of sectors and industries with their unique searching requirements. Our focus is always on matching our client’s specific specification to the best searching solution to match their individual document search requirements. Sometimes one of dtSearch’s “out the box” versions will be suitable, many times a custom solution is required.

Where is it hidden?

With a wide range of licensing options available, it is likely that whatever your particular criteria, dtSearch has a way to help successfully find and documents you need to locate or identify.

The Power of dtSearch

With the ability to interrogate terabytes of text instantly, over a broad range of data and document types, there isn’t much that can escape the indexing engine that forms the backbone of all dtSearch varieties.

Whether wading through email messages, Word documents, PDFs, web data, databases, or virtually any popular document format; it is likely that dtSearch will find what you are looking for…unless it isn’t there, of course.

Looking everywhere...

Added to the power of the indexing engine, are the amazingly powerful querying options that can be customized to broaden or narrow the scope of your search. As someone searching your own data, it is almost like having Google right there on your desktop. As a forensic investigator, it’s like having laser targeting at your fingertips.

Broad Product Overview

The dtSearch product range can be summarized into four main categories


Desktop/Network with Spider

dtSearch Desktop/Network provides instant searching of desktop-accessible files or instant text and field searches across a network. The built-in Spider can expand the scope of the searchable database beyond “local” data to include remote web-based content.

Web with Spider

Instant, concurrent searching of terabytes of static and dynamic online data. dtSearch Web runs on an IIS web server and includes HTML5 templates for publishing instantly searchable data to an Internet or Intranet site, all with no programming required. The Spider can expand the scope of a site’s searchable database to include other remote web data.

Engine (SDKs for multiple platforms)

dtSearch’s proven “industrial-strength” searching and broad data support to your application. SDKs include native 64-bit and 32-bit APIs for .NET, C++ and Java; .NET Spider API.

Publish (portable media)

Quickly publish an instantly searchable document collection to CD, DVD or other portable media, or mirror an existing Web site to other portable media. dtSearch Publish uses a simple wizard-based setup to create the instantly searchable media. For end-users, the media can run with zero footprint, requiring no installation on the end-user’s hard drive.

Universal dtSearch Features

  • Terabyte Indexer.
    dtSearch can index over a terabyte of text in a single index, spanning multiple directories, emails and attachments, online data and other databases. The products can create and search any number of indexes. Indexed search time is typically less than a second, even across terabytes of data.
  • Multithreaded Searching.
    dtSearch products provide efficient multithreaded searching, with no limit on the number of concurrent search threads.
  • Federated Searching and the dtSearch Spider.
    dtSearch products provide federated searching across any number of directories, emails (with nested attachments), and databases. The dtSearch Spider adds local and remote, static and dynamic online content to a search. The Spider can index sites to any level of depth, with support for public and private or secure online content. dtSearch products support integrated relevancy ranking with highlighted hits across both online and offline data repositories.
  • 25+ Search Options and International Language Support.
    dtSearch products offer over 25 search types, including special forensics search options. For international language coverage, dtSearch products support Unicode, including support for right-to-left languages, and Chinese/Japanese/Korean character options.
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We offer free email or phone consultations to help you find the perfect solution for your text retrieval needs…all with no pressure.