Open Semantic Desktop Search vs X1 Search
Open Semantic Desktop Search
opensemanticsearch.org
X1 Search
x1.comSide by side
| Figure | Open Semantic Desktop Search | X1 Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $6.58/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | Yes | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 3 | 2 |
| Spec score · Desktop Search Software | 8.5 (#2) | 7.4 (#29) |
| Intended users | The desktop virtual machine is described for single users, while the separate server installation is aimed at organizations and research teams. | X1 describes Search as a productivity application for personal and business use. |
| Purpose | Free open-source desktop search software for full-text search, exploratory search, text analytics and text mining across large document sets. | X1 Search searches emails, attachments, files, chats, and cloud data sources through a single interface. |
| Search | Search supports operators including wildcards, Boolean AND/OR/NOT, and fuzzy search. | The product offers patented fast-as-you-type search, hit highlighting, full-fidelity previews, and more than 50 metadata filters. |
Plans
Open Semantic Desktop Search
- Open Semantic Desktop SearchFree
- Open Semantic Desktop SearchFree
- Open Semantic Search ServerPriced on request
In their own words
Open Semantic Desktop Search
Open Semantic Desktop Search is free, open-source software for full-text and semantic search, text analytics and mining across large document sets. Its desktop edition comes as a virtual machine appliance for import into VirtualBox; configured shared folders point to documents, and indexing starts when the machine launches. Search supports wildcards, Boolean AND/OR/NOT and fuzzy matching. Multilingual semantic search uses a thesaurus to find synonyms, narrower terms and aliases, while stemming helps find other word forms. Interactive facets group metadata such as authors, organizations, people, dates, tags and document types. Previews can display PDFs, extracted text, table rows and images. Analysis tools include date charts, word clouds, word lists, network graphs and interactive maps. OCR can recognize text in images and scanned PDFs. Connectors include files, feeds, websites, SQL databases, MediaWiki and IMAP email. The desktop appliance is for a single user; a separate server installation is aimed at organizations and research teams. The multilingual virtual machine image is a 4 GB download, and the German desktop image is listed as coming soon.