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Software Characteristics

Software requirement

Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Me, NT4 (sp5+), 2000 or XP,
Word processing software (optional),
Spell checker (optional),
Spreadsheet (optional), Microsoft Excel is necessary to generate analysis reports
Web browser (optional), Internet Explorer 5 or Netscape 6 or above,
Adobe Acrobat (optional).

Hardware requirement

PC compatible computer (Pentium II or compatible),
CD-ROM Drive,
SVGA or XGA (1024x768) graphic screen and card,
Floppy drive (optional, for Ethnos input transfert),
Printer port (parallel port RS232).

Minimum advised configuration

Software	Processor	RAM memory (1)	Disk space	System (3)
Tropes basic	200 Mhz	64 (128) Mb	16 Mb	Win 98, 2000, XP
Tropes Zoom (2)	200 Mhz	128 (256) Mb	50 Mb	Win 98, 2000, XP
Ethnos	200 Mhz	128 Mb	50 Mb	Win 98, 2000, XP
Acetic Index	400 Mhz	128 (256) Mb	2 Gb	Win NT4 (SP6), 2000, XP, Dedicated Hardware appliance

(1) Under Windows 2000 and XP it is advised to install a minimum of 256 Mb of RAM memory so that system works with optimal performances.
(2) 512 Mb of memory RAM and 2 Go of disk space of swapfile advised to make decision-making analysis (on consequent documentary bases) with Tropes Zoom.
(3) For Tropes, Zoom and Index, the conversion of PDF files works only under Windows 2000 or XP.

Maximum volumetry (theoretical)

Software	Text size	Number of files	Number of words	Database size
Tropes Zoom SE	32 Kb	100	100,000	100 files
Tropes basic	100 Mb	1	10,000,000	-
Tropes Zoom	100 Mb	> 1,000,000	2,147,483,648	20 Gb
Ethnos	N/A	Unlimited	N/A	N/A
Acetic Index	100 Mb	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited

By "unlimited", we understand that the theoretical capacity of these software packages widely exceeds what it is possible to handle on a current computer (in 2004). Your computer naturally has limited capacities.

For Zoom, we indicate the theoretical maximal capacity for a single documentary base. Knowing that you can create an unlimited number of documentary bases.

By Database size, we mean the theoretical maximal capacity in terms of pure text indexed by the software. Knowing that it can require terabytes of disc space.

Languages

Language	Tropes Basic (Professional)	Tropes Zoom Special Edition	Tropes Zoom (Professional)	Acetic Index	Ethnos/Stat'Mania
English	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
French	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Spanish	unavailable in France (1)	Contact us	Yes	Yes	Yes
Portuguese	unavailable in France (1)	Contact us	Yes	Yes	No
German	unavailable in France (1)	unavailable in France (1)	Yes (2)	Yes (2)	Yes
Italian	unavailable in France (1)	unavailable in France (1)	Yes (2)	Yes (2)	No

(1) These languages are not commercialized on this site in France, but are available for certain our European partners.
(2) Language in the course of finalisation, available under conditions: contact us.

Text Analysis

Minimum size advised for a text: less than 1 page (1 Kb),
Maximum size advised for a single text: 5,000 pages (50 Mb),
Average analysis throughput: from 20,000 words/second (Pentium III 733 MHz) to 80,000 words/second (Pentium IV 3.2 GHz, HT) on local Web pages, for a single processor.

Semantic Search Engine

Automatic generation of hierarchical keywords,
Automatic information filtering (based on a pertinence treshold),
Massive data analysis and information cartography (text-mining),
Search improvement for the references (nouns, trademarks and proper names),
Maximum numbers of text databases: unlimited,
Average indexing throughput: from 1 Gb/hour (Pentium III 733 Mhz) to 4 Gb/hour (Pentium IV 3.2 GHz, HT) on local Web pages, for a single processor.

Optional modules of Market Research and advanced statistics

Broadcasting of surveys on Internet (Ethnos/Net Survey)
Optical Character Recognition of questionnaires (Ethnos/OMR Manager)
Panel management (Ethnos/Panel Manager)
Management of phone inquiries (Ethnos/Catiopée)
Datamining module (Data analysis, Stat'Mania)
Management of street surveys on PDA (Ethnos/CAPI)

Other features

File formats converted by our linguistic softwares (Tropes, Zoom and Index): Adobe Acrobat, ASCII, ANSI, HTML, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft WordML (Word XML), RTF, XML, SGML and Macintosh texts
Automatic extraction of Microsoft Outlook messages via an external utility (Zoom Semantic Search Engine)
Automatic exportation of the results towards other software (Zoom Semantic Search Engine)
Indexing engine in batch mode (Acetic Index)
Win32 Application Programming Interface (Acetic Index)
Real time XML output interface (Acetic Index)
Distributed fault tolerant and load-balancing Interface (CORBA, Acetic Index)
Runtime, operation on Intranet, HTML generation (contact us)
Some features (for example, very large Text Mining) may require the use of an additional statistics software, of data mining software and/or a RDBMS