AnyTXT Searcher
AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful file full-text search engine, a desktop search application for fast document retrieval. Just like a local disk Google search engine, much faster than Windows Search, it is your ideal free desktop file content full-text search engine.
It has a powerful document parsing engine built in, which extracts the text of commonly used file formats without installing any other software, and combines the built-in high-speed indexing system to store the metadata of the text. You can quickly find any text in any file on your disk by AnyTXT in less than 1 second. It works on Windows 11,10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2012, 2016,2022.
AnyTXT Searcher supports the following file formats:
Plain text (txt, cpp, py, html, etc.)
Microsoft OneNote (one)
Microsoft Word (doc, docx)
Microsoft Excel (xls, xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pptx)
PDF
WPS Office (wps, et, dps)
EBook (epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 etc.)
Mind Map Format (lighten, mmap, mm, xmind etc.)
OFD
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FileLocator Pro
Whether it’s a line of source code, an entry in a log file, a legal brief, or even just a Christmas letter to your family, FileLocator Pro helps you find things fast. Its unique features make it possible to dig out information in even the most obscure file formats. Our client list includes many high-profile organizations. Find out why so many people are switching to FileLocator Pro today! Includes syntax highlighting for easier reading of source code, supports most programming languages. Highly efficient search algorithms mean that you spend less time waiting for results. Indexes can be created for instant searching through GB of data. Documents, images, and source code can be reviewed quickly using unique data navigation functionality. Frequently used searches can be saved as favorites for fast loading. Search through emails, contacts, calendar items over multiple PST files in one go. Share your results with others using the printing and exporting features.
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Crestadoro
Crestadoro is a networkable file indexing and search tool. You can install it on multiple Windows machines, create libraries of documents that reside on each machine, then search and access the files from anywhere on your network.
You can install Crestadoro on as many machines as you like, both the indexing engine and the search client are easy to set up. You can optionally use SQL Server to store the data if you don't want to use the internal storage mechanism that comes as standard (though it is pretty wizzy!).
The Community Edition is completely free to use, you can have as many libraries as you want, the only limitation is that each library can only hold a maximum of 100 documents.
Crestadoro is named in honor of Andrea Crestadoro, a chap who lived a couple of hundred years ago who is generally considered to be the first person to come up with the idea of indexing a book by its content rather than its title. He was also an inventor who came up with some bonkers ideas!
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FileBoss
FileBoss for Windows - Find Files & Folders Fast and Search File Content - File Management Tools FileBoss Features Open directories and folders in a part of a second Find all files or directories and folders containing an expression in the blink of an eye. Save, copy and move files in a specific directory within the program or within any application like Excel, Word , Adobe Reader, Open Office writer or calc, Thunderbird, Outlook. Search all files for certain keywords and exclude keywords that they cannot have. You want for example a list of all word files that contain the words engine and car but you do not want the files that contain the word motorcycle. Attach files to emails without clicking through the directory tree, insert pictures in documents from any directory fast.
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