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Copernic Desktop Search

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Instantly find documents, e-mails(full text), attachments, videos, pictures, music(metadata), and other types of files(file names). The size limit of the index of the free version is 75,000.

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  • Freemium • Proprietary

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  • Windows
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  3.  PDF OCR
  4.  File Search
  5.  Indexed search

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  • Developed by

    Copernic Inc.

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) ranging between $15 and $56 + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.6

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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 10 comments and reviews about Copernic Desktop Search, and it has gotten 36 likes

Copernic Desktop Search was added to AlternativeTo by nefycee on Nov 28, 2009 and this page was last updated Sep 18, 2024. Copernic Desktop Search is sometimes referred to as CDS, Copernic.

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mohd386
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Top positive comment •Aug 21, 2017

Copernic is an excellent files indexer. Highly recommended.

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em4020
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Top negative comment •Jul 7, 2012
  • 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.
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WeiHua Liu

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

Reply written Apr 3, 2022

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angelmartinezn
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Positive comment •Jun 7, 2021

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.

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Negative comment •May 26, 2018

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

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danielson
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Negative comment •Feb 23, 2017

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]

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carlguse
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Negative comment •Jun 29, 2016

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.

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Review •Jul 11, 2014

This program takes forever to index and it uses a lot of memory of the system. When searching the results are nice.

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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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