DocFetcher v1.1.25
Andrew Lee on 30 May 2021 Change history
- 82MB (uncompressed)
- Released on 25 May 2021
- Suggested by vixay
DocFetcher indexes your computer, making the contents of a wide variety of files instantly searchable. Selecting a search result shows a preview of the file with text highlighted and without formatting. You can filter results by location, file type, minimum and/or maximum filesize and more. The program can index Microsoft Office, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, PDF, RTF, EPUB, HTML and more formats from drives, external volumes, archive files and Outlook .PST files (some .OST files also work).
The program supports complex searches via wildcards, proximity, ranges, "fuzzy" terms, and more using Lucene search. You can also do standard file name search via "filename:searchterm." The program is cross-platform and functional on OS X and Linux, as well as 64-bit Windows.
Note:
- The program requires that you manually add folders/drives that you want to view before searching. See the "Basic Usage" section of the homepage for a few intro steps. When adding to the search scope, make sure to check "Store relative paths if possible"
- Some issues have appeared with the program on Windows 10. Users may wish to test the PortableApps beta version if you have issues.
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| Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
| Writes settings to: | Application folder |
| Dependencies: | Java Runtime Environment 1.7 or higher, see forum for use with Java Portable. |
| Stealth: ? | Yes |
| Unicode support: | Yes |
| License: | Eclipse Public License |
| How to extract: |
Download the "portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DocFetcher.exe. If you see a memory error (very rare): either reduce the size/number of files indexed or do the following (64-bit Java only):
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| Similar/alternative apps: | SearchMyFiles |
| What's new? | See: https://sourceforge.net/p/docfetcher/wiki/ChangeLog/ |
4 comments on DocFetcher
webfork
2015-06-30 01:35
Tremendous search program that has saved me again and again, finding files and content that other programs miss. Each version seems to add to the pile of file formats it can index. As a result, it's on every machine I own and some I don't.
v1.1.14
DocFetcher indexes many formats, such as LibreOffice documents, that Microsoft Search (aka Cortana) does not, or does incompletely. It also uses far less CPU time, once the initial indexing is completed, than MS. DocFetcher also runs on Linux. Results can be sorted by likelihood of match, as well as filename, type, date etc. Only downside is that it requires Java.
v1.1.20