Lowercase

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The lowercase filter converts terms generated by a tokenizer to lowercase, making searches case-insensitive. For example, it can convert ["High", "Performance", "Vector", "Database"] to ["high", "performance", "vector", "database"].

Configuration

The lowercase filter is built into Zilliz Cloud. To use it, simply specify its name in the filter section within analyzer_params.

Python

analyzer_params = {
    "tokenizer": "standard",
    "filter": ["lowercase"],
}

Java

Map<String, Object> analyzerParams = new HashMap<>();
analyzerParams.put("tokenizer", "standard");
analyzerParams.put("filter", Collections.singletonList("lowercase"));

The lowercase filter operates on the terms generated by the tokenizer, so it must be used in combination with a tokenizer. For a list of tokenizers available in Zilliz Cloud, refer to Tokenizer Reference.

After defining analyzer_params, you can apply them to a VARCHAR field when defining a collection schema. This allows Zilliz Cloud to process the text in that field using the specified analyzer for efficient tokenization and filtering. For details, refer to Example use.

Example output

Here’s an example of how the lowercase filter processes text:

Original text:

"The Lowercase Filter Ensures Uniformity In Text Processing."

Expected output:

["the", "lowercase", "filter", "ensures", "uniformity", "in", "text", "processing"]