Title: Apache Lucy

#### Overview

The Apache Lucy search engine library provides full-text search for
dynamic programming languages.  It is a "loose C" port of the [Apache
Lucene™](http://lucene.apache.org/) search engine library for Java.

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#### Download

The current release of Apache Lucy is [0.3.2](/download.html).

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#### Getting Started

After downloading and installing Lucy, consider stepping through the
tutorial:

* [Perl tutorial](/docs/perl/Lucy/Docs/Tutorial.html)

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#### The Apache Software Foundation

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