Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries.

You'll find documentation in subdirectory 'doc' in various formats (HTML, Docbook XML). You can also browse the documentation from the Zebra home page.

Install YAZ. Optional external packages: Tcl, iconv, EXPAT, libxml2 and libxslt1.

  ./configure
  make
  make install

For detailed instructions and Windows installation refer to the documentation.

Zebra is covered by the GNU GPL v2. See LICENSE.zebra.

To get more information or assistance, send mail to [email protected]

We maintain a mailing-list for the purpose of announcing new versions of the software, bug-reports, discussion etc. You can sign up at the URL Zebra Mailing list