Alternatives to DocFetcher for Mac with any license

Recoll

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. ...
- It is very fast and can index many different types of files. Search results are shown in context and everything is configurable. Two or more different databases can be created, although this demands starting the application from the command line. cocofifix • Mar 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- It actually is a full text index. The other choices are file finders Guest • Oct 2016 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD
File Searching Indexed search File content indexing Search-in-files ... File preview File Searching Full text search Low memory usage Semantic Search Add a feature

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grep

grep is a command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines matching a regular expression.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Haiku
File Searching Support for regular expressions Add a feature

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fzf

fzf is a general-purpose command-line fuzzy finder. * No dependencies * Blazingly fast * The most comprehensive feature set * Flexible layout using tmux panes *...

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux Vim
Terminal-based File Searching Fuzzy Finder Add a feature

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EasyFind

EasyFind is an alternative to (or supplement of) Spotlight to find files, folders, or contents in any file without indexing.
- Discontinued
  The app can still be downloaded on the Mac App Store but it hasn't been updated in 5 years.
Free Mac
File management File Searching Add a feature

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Spotlight

Spotlight is the system-wide desktop search feature built into Apple's OS X operating system since version 10.4 (Tiger). Backed by an index of all items and files on...

Free Mac
Program Launchers Extensible by Plugins/Extensions File preview File Searching ... Indexed search Add a feature

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Find Any File

Find Any File is a program for Apple's Mac OS X that lets you search for files on your disks.

Commercial $ $ $ Mac
Search and replace File Searching Add a feature

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Diamond

Diamond helps people get instant access to any of their files or emails using a keyboard hotkey. www.diamond.io .

Commercial $ $ $ Mac Windows
File Searching Add a feature

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fzy

fzy is a fast, simple fuzzy text selector for the terminal with an advanced scoring algorithm. fzy is faster and shows better results than other fuzzy finders. ...

Free Open Source Mac Linux Vim
File Searching Full text search Add a feature

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Scherlokk

Scherlokk is a lightning fast file search utility build for precise and reliable search of every file which meets the search criteria. Music, pictures, bookmarks...

Commercial Mac
File Searching Add a feature

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SearchLight - SpotLight on steroids

The Spotlight Search Metadata on your Mac is a truly remarkable thing. Given some text it is able to find all occurrences anywhere on the filesystem in the blink of an...

Free Mac Spotlight
File Searching Spotlight Add a feature

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