The Most Powerful Search

Only ZyLAB Is Built for 100% Recall

ZyLAB is the only eDiscovery and information management product that is capable of delivering 100% recall of potentially relevant data by coupling advanced search techniques with the ability to decipher complex files. This unique combination casts the widest possible net for each search—which is in stark contrast to common search engines that return only the most popular, or optimized, hits.

Our unique search technology has been developed in partnership with the most demanding and discerning organizations involved in high-profile investigations. ZyLAB software will retrieve all potentially relevant information—even if it is hidden in a bitmapped French document that was scanned at a 90 degree angle, zipped, attached to an email, and subsequently nested in another email message.



ZyLAB’s advanced search technology addresses the demands of intensive, exploratory legal search: complete, proportional, defensible, and accurate.

search any file type

  • Supports structured and unstructured data
  • 700+ electronic file formats out-of-the-box
  • Multi-directional OCR files, including digitized documents and bitmap (e.g. PDF, TIFF) image files
  • Phonetic search of audio files 
  • Every component of email, including nested emails, attachments, calendar items, tasks, properties and embedded objects
  • Compressed or compound files (e.g. ZIP, RAR)
  • SharePoint and database content
  • All other sources and file types can be captured via ZyLAB’s custom connectors

search in 400 languages

  • Automatic recognition of 400+ foreign languages and scripts including Arabic, Chinese and Japanese
  • Software interface translated into 26 foreign languages and scripts
  • Automatic Machine Translation of content

search text And metadata

  • Full text search of textual data
  • Forensic indexing of file and document properties, such as Title, Author, Created Date, Subject, and Status
  • Ability to search and extract hidden file properties

Text Mining and extraction

Even when a word is not present in a document or when it is hidden in the document or file properties, ZyLAB’s Analytics Server can extract the hidden data or run the text of a document against a concept extractor to find semantic notions, create a summary, extract entities or complex patterns, or reveal unknown connections between persons, companies, locations and events. All of this extracted data can then be used to search, organize and rank documents more effectively.

Extractors are available for entities, facts, events, file properties, document properties, key fields, HTML and XML tags, automatic language recognition, automatic summaries, machine translation, document category, etc.

advanced search tools & techniques

  • Complex, nested Booleans
  • Proximity
  • Phrase
  • Concept
  • Date
  • Key Field
  • File Property
  • Document Property
  • Entity
  • Progressive
  • Quorum
  • Transliteration
  • Numeric Range
  • Fuzzy
  • Wildcard

navigate the hits

Achieving 100% recall is only advantageous if you have search aids to manage a larger hit list. ZyLAB provides the following tools to help you manage, review, refine and tag your search results.

  • Hit-highlighting and hit-navigation
  • Hit density
  • Sorting by key field
  • Reproducible and reliable relevance ranking
  • Vocabulary
  • Search history
  • Find similar
  • Concept and Synonyms
  • Taxonomy support
  • Keyword in Context (KWIC) View
  • Faceted search/refine results
  • Data visualization (Tree Map, Hyperbolic Trees, Google Maps)
  • Federation (both federate and federated with open search ATOM standard)
  • Internet Search engine integration (Sitemap.org support)
  • Automatic alerting
  • Table of Contents look-up

set-up: optical character recognition and indexing

  • Convert bitmaps (stored in file systems or attached to emails) in any of 200 languages to searchable content
  • Extended index and search process auditing and reporting
  • Incremental indexing of live network data
  • Integration with records management, legal hold, identification, collection, legal review, (TIFF) productions and redaction processes
  • Extended logging and audit functions for all aspects of the index, extraction and search processes
  • Option to customize search engine behavior
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Fuzzy Search

  • ZyLAB Fuzzy Search retrieves all occurrences of a word, together with all other words that are close in spelling to the original word. This is particularly useful for OCR errors, scanning errors, typos, and spelling variations for specialized lexicon, and spelling variations in names that are derived from non-roman scripts such as Cyrillic, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Hebrew, Chinese and Japanese.
  • The degree of fuzziness specifies the degree of closeness to the original word and helps control the quantity of results returned. Our technology retains excellent precision, even at high fuzzy degrees, and the difference in performance between large data sets and smaller data sets is negligible. Unlike most other products, ZyLAB’s fuzzy search even allows the first character to be different.
  • A main advantage of the ZyLAB’s fuzzy algorithms is that it is language- and application- independent and does not need to be “trained” like many competitors’ products.
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Wildcard Search


  • ZyLAB Wildcard Search enables the user to replace any character in a word that may be illegible or unknown—even the first character of a word—with a wildcard. For example, one could search for a phone number without knowing the first digits (***-555-*26*) or other digits in the number.
  • Our technology supports a variety of wildcard positions (a*, *a, a*a, and *a*) without search speed degradation.
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Option to customize search engine behavior

  • ZyLAB clients may customize the behavior of their ZyLAB search engine by a variety of criteria, such as noise words, token identification, character mappings, code page and Unicode support, translatable operators, punctuation, and hyphen- and apostrophe- processing.
  • Non-recognized and encrypted file formats can be automatically detected and moved to special locations for further processing.