# Zebra - User's Guide and Reference

### Sebastian Hammer

### Adam Dickmeiss

### Heikki Levanto

### Mike Taylor

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Zebra is a free, fast, friendly information management system. It can index records in XML/SGML, MARC, e-mail archives and many other formats, and quickly find them using a combination of boolean searching and relevance ranking. Search-and-retrieve applications can be written using APIs in a wide variety of languages, communicating with the Zebra server using industry-standard information-retrieval protocols.

This manual explains how to build and install Zebra, configure it appropriately for your application, add data and set up a running information service. It describes version 1.3.4 of Zebra.

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