The Search and Matching Server is used to handle simultaneous search requests from one or more client applications and provide search results in a most efficient way. Multiple users can access the Search and Matching Server non-concurrently to configure a new and maintain existing fuzzy databases via the Kofax Search and Matching Server Administration.

A Fuzzy Database (also called Fuzzy Index) allows fast searching and matching of text values using non-exact (fuzzy) string matching either in record sets or in specific columns. The fuzzy index is created either from a CSV file or from a single table or view of a relational database that is stored as a delimited text file in CSV format, which can either be a Microsoft SQL Server, an Oracle Server and an ODBC database.