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Please Note: If you are an author or editor needing to prepare an index to your book or other publication, you may wish to consult our Indexer Locator, which lists professional indexers, their areas of expertise, and full contact information. Find the indexer best suited for your project.
- Free-text and weighted-text searching tools are not discussed in these pages, but are aspects of information retrieval that indexers are very interested in. Dedicated Indexing Software. This list of dedicated software geared toward the needs of professional indexers is for informational purposes only.
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Dedicated Indexing Software
Web Indexing
Utilities and Add-Ons
Thesaurus Management Software
Web Indexing
Utilities and Add-Ons
Thesaurus Management Software
PDF Index Generator is a powerful indexing utility for generating the back of your book index and writing it to your book in 4 easy steps. The program parses your PDF, collects the index terms & their location in the PDF, then writes the generated index to a PDF or a text file you specify. Download one of NCH Software's many free software programs in the audio, video, business, graphics, computer utility and dictation space for Windows or Mac.
Note: ASI does not endorse these products and makes no claims as to their effectiveness or suitability for any particular use.
The software tools used to generate indexes come in many flavors and varieties. Which technique is used depends on variables such as budget, eventual re-usability of the source material, time constraints, media used to publish the material, file sizes and transferral issues, and individual preferences. There are essentially six different methodologies for indexing:
- Standalone or Dedicated tools, usually used for back-of-the-book indexes, allow indexers to work from page-numbered galleys. The indexing is completely separate from the published material. Dedicated indexing tools are listed below.
- Embedded indexing is the process of creating index entries electronically in a document's files. The indexer inserts the index entries as invisible text in the electronic files. Although desktop publishing packages are not the best tools for indexing, they can be used to create effective embedded indexes. For technical documents that will be updated frequently or will go online, indexers can create embedded indexes that will help their audience find information quickly and efficiently. Some tools that allow for embedded indexing include FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign (or the older PageMaker), Madcap Flare, and Quark Xpress. Markup languages that allow for embedding indexing include SGML, HTML, XML and TeX/LaTeX.
- Tagging allow indexing codes to be embedded in the electronic text after the indexing is complete. The indexer inserts numbered dummy tags in the files, and then builds the index separately. The final step uses macros to insert the indexing at each tag in the files. Many of these tools are developed in-house to fit the publishing group's needs.
- Keywording is used primarily in online help materials. It can be hard-coded jumps, similar to WWW links, or it can be inserted as embedded coding and built into a list by the software.
- Automated indexing software, a tool that now accompanies most word-processing software, build a concordance or a word list, from processed files. Although the manufacturers often claim these packages build indexes, the actual results are a list of words and phrases, sometimes useful in the beginning stages of building an index. Usability tests of these packages have shown that the word lists omit many key ideas and phrases, and cannot fine-tune terminology for easy retrieval, or build the needed hierarchies of ideas that professional indexing can.
- Free-text and weighted-text searching tools are not discussed in these pages, but are aspects of information retrieval that indexers are very interested in.
Dedicated Indexing Software
This list of dedicated software geared toward the needs of professional indexers is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all tools that indexers may use in the course of their work. ASI does not endorse any product.
CINDEX™ (for Windows, and Macintosh)
Indexing Research
620 Park Avenue, #183
Rochester, NY 14607
Tel: (585) 413-1819
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.indexres.com
Users who formerly purchased CINDEX™ and obtained support through Whatsapp messenger android 2.3.6. Leverage Technologies, Inc. are invited to contact Indexing Research for ongoing support and information.
Book Index software, free download
Index Manager (for Windows and Macintosh)
Klarso GMBH
Berlin, Germany
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://index-manager.net
Pilar Wyman, Regional Sales Manager, USA/Canada
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (443) 336-5497
Klarso GMBH
Berlin, Germany
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://index-manager.net
Pilar Wyman, Regional Sales Manager, USA/Canada
Email: [email protected]
Tel: (443) 336-5497
Macrex™ (for Windows)
Wise Bytes — Macrex Support Office, North America
3056 Castro Valley Blvd #194
Castro Valley, CA 94546
Tech. Support: (888) 348-4292
Sales: (888) 348-4292
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.macrex.com
In North America:
20% discount for ASI members;
$200 discount for students & instructors of approved indexing courses.
Wise Bytes — Macrex Support Office, North America
3056 Castro Valley Blvd #194
Castro Valley, CA 94546
Tech. Support: (888) 348-4292
Sales: (888) 348-4292
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.macrex.com
In North America:
20% discount for ASI members;
$200 discount for students & instructors of approved indexing courses.
SKY Index™ Professional (for Windows)
SKY Software
114 Lariat Court
Stephens City, VA 22655
Tel: (540) 751-4336
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.sky-software.com Windows xp x64 sp3 iso.
SKY Software
114 Lariat Court
Stephens City, VA 22655
Tel: (540) 751-4336
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.sky-software.com Windows xp x64 sp3 iso.
TExtract book indexing software
Harry Bego, Texyz
Houtrakgracht 360
3544 SG Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30-6700318
Fax: +31-30-3100271
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.texyz.com
Harry Bego, Texyz
Houtrakgracht 360
3544 SG Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31-30-6700318
Fax: +31-30-3100271
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.texyz.com
wINDEX (for DOS)
Susan Holbert Indexing Services
24 Harris Street
Waltham, MA 02452-6105
Tel: (Toll-free) (877) 408-7299
Fax: (707)-248-1342
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.abbington.com/holbert/windex.html
Susan Holbert Indexing Services
24 Harris Street
Waltham, MA 02452-6105
Tel: (Toll-free) (877) 408-7299
Fax: (707)-248-1342
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.abbington.com/holbert/windex.html
Web Indexing
While dedicated indexing programs can be used in indexing web sites, these programs are specifically designed to aid indexers working with web sites and other HTML documents.
HTML Indexer™ (for Windows)
David M. Brown
Brown Inc.
Portland, OR
E-Mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.html-indexer.com/
David M. Brown
Brown Inc.
Portland, OR
E-Mail: [email protected]
URL: http://www.html-indexer.com/
XRefHT32 (freeware)
Prof. Tim Craven
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada, N6A 5B7
E-Mail (text only): [email protected]
URL: http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm
Prof. Tim Craven
Faculty of Information and Media Studies
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
Canada, N6A 5B7
E-Mail (text only): [email protected]
URL: http://publish.uwo.ca/~craven/freeware.htm
James Lamb has written a guide to using XRefHT32 titled: Website Indexes: visitors to content in two clicks, or website indexing with XRefHT32 freeware (2006). It can be purchased at: http://www.lulu.com/content/300848
Utilities and Add-ons
IndexAssistant (for Word)
jambient Software
487 King Street
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2T1
Canada
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.jambient.com/indexassistant
jambient Software
487 King Street
Peterborough, Ontario K9J 2T1
Canada
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.jambient.com/indexassistant
Free Book Indexing Software
IndexBase
- IndexConvert (Word add-in aids index import into Cindex, Macrex, Sky Index, Index-Manager, spreadsheets and databases)
- IndexExploit (Word add-in supports rapid location of indexed content in Word and PDF documents. It also supports Word embedded indexing including editing, debugging and in-situ re-sorting by reference to a stop word file.)
Email:[email protected]
URL:http://www.indexbase.co.uk
URL:http://www.indexbase.co.uk
IXgen (for FrameMaker)
Frank Stearns Associates
17201 SE 38th Circle
Vancouver, WA 98683
[email protected]
Tel: (800) 567-6421
Tel: Outside USA: 360/892-3970
Fax: 360/253-1498
URL: http://www.fsatools.com https://clevercreative940.weebly.com/gameloft-online-games.html.
Frank Stearns Associates
17201 SE 38th Circle
Vancouver, WA 98683
[email protected]
Tel: (800) 567-6421
Tel: Outside USA: 360/892-3970
Fax: 360/253-1498
URL: http://www.fsatools.com https://clevercreative940.weebly.com/gameloft-online-games.html.
The Editorium™
Various software add-ons for Microsoft Word, such as
Various software add-ons for Microsoft Word, such as
- DEXter (for indexing in Word)
- DEXembed (embeds entries in Word from indexes created with dedicated indexing software)
- IndexDeconstructor (converts back-of-the-book indexes into a tab-delimited file for importing into indexing software)
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.editorium.com
URL: http://www.editorium.com
Megabit Macros (for Cindex™, SKY Index™ Professional, or Macrex)
Margaret Berson, author
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.edit-mb.com/megabit
Margaret Berson, author
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://www.edit-mb.com/megabit
File Indexing Software
VBAtechINDEXER™ (for Excel under Windows)
JOyAN Enterprises, dba VBAtech
P.O. Box 710371
San Diego, CA 92171
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://indexing.vbatech.com
JOyAN Enterprises, dba VBAtech
P.O. Box 710371
San Diego, CA 92171
Email: [email protected]
URL: http://indexing.vbatech.com
Combination Index Free Software
WordEmbed (for Word)
URL: http://jalamb.com/wordembed.html
URL: http://jalamb.com/wordembed.html