AnyTXT Searcher Free

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AnyTXT Searcher Free

#1 Post by webfork »

I didn't have a lot of luck with this one, though some of the following experiences may be based on the fact that I didn't use it as an installer. That may have caused it to skip creating an index and therefore all searches were manual.
AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful local data full-text search engine, just like a local disk Google search engine. It is your ideal desktop content search tool.

AnyTXT Searcher has a powerful document parsing engine built in, which extracts the text of commonly used documents 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 words that exists on your computer with AnyTXT Searcher. It works perfect on Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2012, 2016 etc.
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Version tested 1.2

Steps:

1. Run Uniextract 2
2. Run ATGUI.exe

Status: not portable, writes to registry

Usage notes:

* Very fast search times considering it was searching file content

* Did seem to work with search functions similar to everything e.g. c:\temp TPFC would find all files in temp with the word "TPFC" in them.

* Didn't find a LOT of terms contained in DOCX files around my computer


VT: 0/70
SHA256: EEDA95805D1F3AD210AA3BCFD518B4C1E7828CFDBDB57FA5ABD2B76E6D654688 (https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/eed ... /detection)

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EDIT: left off the websites:

Main: https://anytxt.net/
Mirror: https://sourceforge.net/projects/anytxt/ (although there's a sourceforge page, I think this is just freeware)

EDIT2: Installs a system service. No chance this is portable.

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Re: AnyTXT Searcher Free

#2 Post by webfork »

Ghacks has a positive article up about AnyTXT https://www.ghacks.net/2020/09/18/anytx ... instantly/ ... looks like a posible alternative to DocFetcher in the content indexing "Desktop Search" program group. As noted in the article:
The program is not portable, probably because it uses a service to index the files in the background.

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Commenters of the GHacks article are not very positive about it, claiming that it possibly creates a large database of around 488MB, and uses 500MB for the service while running. Didn't test it, but those kinds of comments make me hesitant to bother with it.

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#4 Post by webfork »

TP109 wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2020 9:32 pm ... and uses 500MB for the service while running
Yeah this was an issue with the Exselo desktop search program, though their client was much more aggressive and bulky. Given that there aren't a lot of content indexers that work on multiple filetypes (Windows' own search program is mostly limited to Microsoft formats), the bulky footprint might be worth the pain. If you have a large and diverse collection of files and need to find (for example) a phone number immediately, there aren't many other free options.

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