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Copernic Desktop Search

Indexes and quickly searches over 170 file types and emails, including attachments and multimedia files, on desktops, external and network drives, as well as cloud environments, offering sub-second results and a 75,000 file index size limit in the free version.

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  • Subscription
  • Proprietary

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  • Windows
2.7
Poor6 reviews
36likes
11comments
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  1.  OCR
  2.  File Search
  3.  Outlook search
  4.  PDF OCR
  5.  Indexed search

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  • desktop-search

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Comment summary: Copernic Desktop Search once excelled as a free indexer until feature reductions in later versions. Users express nostalgia for version 2.3, noting it indexed network drives and Outlook. However, recent updates are criticized for poor performance and missing integrations. The software has high system resource demands but delivers good search results. Subscription pricing is also considered excessive by some users. While there are positive comments on functionality and OCR, many prefer older editions.
Top Positive Comment
angelmartinezn
0

I'm trying the one month free trial and I have to admit that this software is really good. The ocr is pretty straigthforward and its search works very well.

Top Negative Comment
em4020
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  • Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) is free only for non-commercial home use. Commercial use requires the Professional or Corporate version.
  • IYF is completely free, also in commercial environment
  • IYF is portable, needs no admin rights on the local computer, CDS must be installed and cannot be used on computers in the job without admin rights
  • With IYF you can very quickly find files on remote servers, on which you have no admin rights, so it is ideal for quick searches on very big company networks with thousands of directories
  • Only "CDS Corporate" allows to find files, stored anywhere on the enterprise network. the free Copernic Desktop Search Home" allows only to search files on the PC's hard drive.
  • IYF creates indexes for only the directories you select
  • IYF has also a selectable option to search inside files as CDS can do
  • The portable "Index Your Files" version 5.0.2.6 is lightweight and has only a size of 969 KB
  • Copernic Desktop Search Home needs 9.5 MB
  • CDS for Home Use is only available in only 4 languages: English, French, German, Spanish
  • IYF is available in the many languages: English, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, German, Portuguese, Russian, French, S/T Chinese, Bulgarian, Brazilian, Turkish, Czech, Dutch, Polish, Lithuanian and Kurdish.
WeiHua Liu

the Free version index size is limited to 75,000 files

TBayAreaPat
0

In its early days, which I believe were the early 2000's before Google search was standard, I thought this program was "the bomb" and I was sorry when it went through changes. As I remember it, it would not only find pc files, but also web files.. and it would summarize them.. incredible for the time. However, I don't think the new version is anything like the old one. I tried the very old setup, but it doesn't run on Win 10.

flux
1

They want 55.45USD for an annual subscription; quite "NUTTY" in my opinion.

mohd386
1

Copernic is an excellent files indexer. Highly recommended.

danielson
1

Doesn't deliver as good as CDS5. Promises Onenote integration (yet to see) and basically only "scans" the first three categories plus images. Have touched based many times with support; some just repeat a protocol like a recorder, others are sincere to try and help. Not pleased with this edition (and service) so far (2017-02-23)

All in all, this version feels more like an alpha than beta or stable. Sad news from a company that i have always highly esteemed before.

[Edited by danielson, February 23]

carlguse
1

My earlier version was working great but since upgrading to the newer version of CDS, nothing seems to be working smoothly or missing emails and other data.

Am going to remove it and go with an alternative.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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What is Copernic Desktop Search?

Copernic Desktop Search is software that indexes and searches over 170 file types and emails on desktops, network drives, virtual desktops, and cloud environments. Its unique keyword mapping function allows for efficient indexing of Windows systems. Users can search documents located on their computer, external and network drives. The software aims to improve search speed and productivity by reducing document search time.

It also includes an instant file discovery feature, enabling users to quickly locate documents, emails, attachments, videos, pictures, music metadata, and other files by their names. This feature is available in the freemium version of Copernic Desktop Search Home, with an index size limit of 75,000. The software can conduct sub-second searches of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint files, Acrobat PDFs, multimedia files, and more. Copernic Desktop Search is available in three versions: Home, Professional, and Corporate.

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Copernic Desktop Search information

  • Developed by

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Commercial product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $3 and $8 per month.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.7
  • Alternatives

    83 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 11 comments and reviews about Copernic Desktop Search, and it has gotten 36 likes

Copernic Desktop Search was added to AlternativeTo by nefycee on and this page was last updated . Copernic Desktop Search is sometimes referred to as CDS, Copernic