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+# Luke
+
+## Introduction
+
+Luke (atop Swing) is the GUI tool for introspecting your Lucene index. It allows:
+
+* Browsing your documents, indexed terms and posting lists
+* Searching in the index
+* Performing index maintenance: index health checking, index optimization (take a backup before running this!)
+* Testing your custom Lucene analyzer (Tokenizer/CharFilter/TokenFilter)
+
+![Swing Luke](luke-swing.png)
+
+## Launching Luke
+
+Using a binary release
+
+The [Lucene Downloads](https://lucene.apache.org/core/downloads.html) page contains stable releases of Lucene including Luke. Download the respective release, unpack and run a shell or batch scripts inside the folder 'luke' (or directly with java -jar if you prefer it that way).
+
+## Older releases
+
+Older releases of Luke (prior to 8.1) can be found at https://github.com/DmitryKey/luke
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