# &zebra; - User's Guide and Reference

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&zebra; is a free, fast, friendly information management system. It can index records in &acro.xml;, &acro.sgml;, &acro.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 &acro.api;s in a wide variety of languages, communicating with the &zebra; server using industry-standard information-retrieval protocols or web services.

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 &version; of &zebra;.

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## Reference

The material in this chapter is drawn directly from the individual manual entries.

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