DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Features

  • Portable version available
  • Full Unicode support for all supported file formats
  • Can read the following archive formats: zip, 7z, rar, tar.*
  • Can read Outlook PST files

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License

Eclipse Public License

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User Reviews

  • I am a long time user of X1 Search. I depend on it. I have my issues with it, but it does what it does reliably and very well. For various reasons, I am looking for an alternative to X1. That's how I found DocFetcher. I've only played with it lightly for a few days. I am really impressed! The main thing it seems to lack is preview in native format. But the preview pane displayed the text contents of docs I looked at without problem. But what matters most is the quality of the search, and DocFetcher totally works. Indexing the same folders as X1 it gives the same results for the same searches. Only to be expected, I guess. But it also seems as fast, with type ahead results. What it also *seems* to lack is the ability to refine searches the way X1 does, with secondary search fields for each column (type, date, name size, etc) of the listed results, for drilling down into the basic results. But that might be a lot to ask for! In the free version, I had a folder where indexing would always stall out right around the same point. Couldn't figure out why. But the Pro version (entirely rebuilt as I understand it, and still in development) had no problem at all! Very happy to have found DocFetcher in this important product category. Thank you!
  • Wonderful!!! Many thanks!!!
  • Kind of a clunky non-intuitive program but once you figure out how to use it, it works really well. I ran a test after indexing all my documents folder to search for the word "fudge" and the Docfetcher program found it used in some documents I didn't believe that the word could even be in. After checking each of these documents, lo and behold there was the word "fudge". So this program works as advertised.
  • Great!
  • Estuve buscando una alternativa a Search Inform Desktop Free, que permita buscar en documentos de Word actuales (.docx), y no he encontrado un programa gratuito mejor para Windows. Tiene un entorno funcional, cómodo y fácil de usar, y está en español. Es casi perfecto para buscar en los documentos de un PC, lo único que echo de menos es que no salta a los resultados en la vista de documento, en las búsquedas de proximidad válidas, cuando se cambia el orden de dos palabras. Por decirlo así, no hace búsquedas de proximidad simétricas .
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Java SWT

Programming Language

Unix Shell, Python, Java

Related Categories

Unix Shell File Managers, Unix Shell Search Software, Unix Shell Source Code Management Software, Python File Managers, Python Search Software, Python Source Code Management Software, Java File Managers, Java Search Software, Java Source Code Management Software

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2007-06-05