


Now, however, with big multi- Terabyte disk drives available at reasonable prices, storage is cheap and plentiful. An index is usually a lot smaller than the original collection of documents and in the past this was an important consideration.

In most case it is enough to build an index of words that occur in the document, complete with links to where the document is stored. Although occasionally just knowing it exists is enough, what you usually need to do next is to access the document. When you are searching for a document, what matters first is finding that it exists. Continuing our look at facilities available in dtSearch, we examine the option to store the contents of a document within the index and show how it provides hit highlighting, report generation and document retrieval.
