Apps tagged with 'text-search'

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  1. DocFetcher icon
     129 likes

    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 macOS, and is made available under the Eclipse Public License.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Filter panel and preview panel enabled
    Filter panel and preview panel enabled
    No extra fluff
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    Preview panel enabled
    128 alternatives
    3.8
    Good18 reviews
  2. Recoll icon
     63 likes

    This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface.

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    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Search results
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    A result list with a preview window open
    +6
    The two tabs in the advanced search dialog
    44 alternatives
    4.2
    Very Good10 reviews
  3. Agent Ransack icon
     111 likes

    Agent Ransack is a tool for finding files and information on your hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent Ransack also displays the text found. Users can then quickly browse the results without having to separately open each file!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Search results, showing the contents view docked below the file list view:
    Print preview allows you to check your results before printing:
    Regular expression wizard helps you build regular expressions for complex pattern matching searches:
    +3
    Search by modified, created, or last accessed date:
    78 alternatives
  4. TextSeek icon
     9 likes

    TextSeek is a professional full-text desktop search tool for Windows and MacOS. It supports PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, RTF and other formats.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
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    103 alternatives
  5. FileSearchy icon
     37 likes

    File search utility that provides instant search by file name, and powerful search by file contents, size and date. Supports search inside PDF, Microsoft Office and other documents. Highlights found text in file names and contents. Clean and intuitive multi-tabbed user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    FileSearch instant mode
    74 alternatives
  6. Koha icon
     11 likes

    Koha is the first free and open source software library automation package (ILS). Koha’s feature set continues to evolve and expand to meet the needs of its user base.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    13 alternatives
  7. A fast and next-generation desktop search and productivity tool for standard and virtual desktops, for private and enterprise search requirements. Finds documents, outlook archives and e-mails, contacts, appointments, folders, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
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    76 alternatives
  8.  1 like

    Grep-style text search & replace for Windows with a simple GUI. No installation needed; supports multi-directory search, regex, whole-word, case-sensitive, and batch replace.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  9. QLever icon
     1 like

    Very fast SPARQL Engine, which can handle very large knowledge graphs, offers context-sensitive autocompletion for SPARQL queries, and allows combination with text search.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    The QLever UI.
    7 alternatives
  10. ack icon
     10 likes

    Ack is designed as a standalone (one perl file) replacement for 99% of the uses of grep. ack is intelligent about the files it searches. It knows about certain file types, based on both the extension on the file and, in some cases, the contents of the file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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    18 alternatives
  11. Batch Docs icon
     7 likes

    Replace, insert new content, remove existing text, change text style and formatting in 1000s of Word and text documents in bulk. Save results and convert between various document formats: docx, doc, pdf, odt, rtf, wpd, txt, xps, html, and others.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main Window.
    Documents added and ready for processing.
    Processing.
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    Step 1 - add documents.
  12. BareGrep icon
     13 likes

    A free file finding and text searching tool:

    • Regular expression text search
    • High performance search algorithm
    • Wildcard and regular expression file search
    • Recursive directory search
    • Save, name and manage text search patterns
    • Interactive, incremental search
    • Ext.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main window
    Files to search can be specified using a list of wildcards or regular expressions
    Regular expression text search
    72 alternatives
  13. Outlook and desktop search to help you search and find information from your files, emails and documents on your computer. Now also with a secure p2p network so you can share information and collaborate with your friends and colleagues.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Microsoft Office Outlook
    Card view result set.
    Table view result set.
    Tile view result set.
    +7
    Access to Exselo Settings.
    68 alternatives
  14. Replace, insert new content, remove existing text, change text style and formatting in 1000s of Word and text documents in bulk. Save results and convert between various document formats: docx, doc, pdf, odt, rtf, wpd, txt, xps, html, and others.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    Main Window.
    Adding documents for processing.
    Specifying actions to perform.
    +2
    Choosing output format and processing documents.
  15. The SPHW LogViewer is the perfect companion for software developers or administrators. With its functions, you can easily keep an overview and track down problems very quickly. The SPHW LogViewer was developed with the aim of sustainably improving the productivity as well as the...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
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    36 alternatives
  16. Search Text In Files is an easy-to-use file search application for your computer. Search through plain-text files and PDF files using simple queries and this tool will quickly list the requested files.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    63 alternatives
  17. nn_search2 icon
     1 like

    nn-search2 is a part-of-speech tagging and text search utility based on NLTK, TextBlob and matplotlib. It uses state-of-the-art pos-tagger based on Averaged Perceptron which provides fast and accurate results.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  18. Ambar icon
     4 likes

    Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    • VirtualBox
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
    Instant Search
    Search throught Scanned Images (OCR functionality)
    Real-Time Statistics
    +2
    Dropbox Integration
    12 alternatives
  19. Batch Files icon
     4 likes

    Replace, insert, delete, copy, move, format, extract, convert, encode, encrypt text and bytes in multiple files. Process 1000s files using multiple CPU cores in manual, automatic, scheduled, or console modes, or right-clicking on selected files.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
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  20. Text Sherlock icon
     3 likes

    Provides a fast, easy to install and use search engine for text but, mostly for source code. OpenGrok requires to much time to install (though it may be worth it for some). Sherlock will give you a much easier setup, a text indexer, and a web app interface for searching.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
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    2 alternatives
  21. Batch RegEx icon
     3 likes

    Replace, format, and extract text in multiple files using Regular Expressions. Perform GREP-like tasks including search and replace, RegEx substitutions, data extraction, and more! Built-in RegEx editors support color syntax highlighting and tips.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    48 alternatives
  22. Batch-Notepad that can replace, insert, delete, copy, and move text in multiple files in bulk! Perform advanced search and replace operations using RegEx substitutions. Supports multi-line replace, wildcards, match selection, case matching, Unicode!.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
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    55 alternatives
  23. DFind icon
     2 likes

    DFind lets you perform advanced file and folder searches on your Mac. Need to find all files containing a certain text? Need to find files created in the last hour? Need to find large files that take up all your disk space?

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
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    29 alternatives
  24. UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code. It is intended to be largely command-line compatible with Ack, to some extent with ag, and where appropriate with grep.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    11 alternatives