Publisher's Description
From DocFetcher Development Team:
DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application. It allows you to search the contents of documents on your computer. You can think of it as Google for your local document repository. The program provides a preview panel with search term highlighting. The results can be sorted and filtered. The following document formats are supported: MS Office, OpenOffice.org, PDF, HTML, plain text, RTF, AbiWord, and CHM files. Features include Unicode support, archive support, search in source code files, Outlook PST files, detection of HTML pairs, Regex-based exclusion of files from indexing, Mime-type detection, and query syntax.
What's new in this version: Version 1.1.8 include GUI translations for Simplified Chinese, French and Portuguese.
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"Stunning freeware"
Version: DocFetcher 1.1.8
Pros
With a number of similar programs to choose from this was the very first one I tried, after I read that it only indexes folders you select and not the entire computer.
I am not looking any further!!! The search is blisteringly fast. Not only words from docs and pdfs, it even finds text that is in clips and screen captures on my portable notekeeper in Dropbox, and it will bring up names in jpeg photos too, if you index them. Double-click on a result and the doc, pdf, jpeg or whatever will open.Cons
Folders of docs and pdfs were no trouble but trying to index too many jpegs at once crashed it, so I had to load them folder by folder. This process is a bit tedious when you have a number to do, and it could do with a hotkey. Once you're done, though, updating changes is much simpler.
Summary
I have a great number of files on my computer relating to an interest of mine. Finding data was becoming increasingly difficult, with inconsistent results from both Windows Search and FileFinder Lite, while my own homebuilt index was getting too complex and time-consuming to maintain. DocFetcher has relieved me of any more worries.
It was incorrect of me to say that DocFetcher was finding text from files in my notekeeper. The file types are not supported and what was being found was from duplicates elsehere in my system.
Updated on Nov 8, 2013
I should have added to my review that the software is very slow to download, and after you've waited some minutes it hangs just before it is finished. This happened to me with installation on two computers. Persevere and you'll get it in the end, if really stuck search for different downloads or mirrors.
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