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 Disagree   Agree
• It actually is a full text index. The other choices are file finders Guest • Oct 2016 Disagree   Agree

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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

Taggit

Tag-based file and folder manager. Browse, tag, search by file name, content or tags.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux

TextSeek

TextSeek helps you search document contents for Windows and MacOS within seconds, inlcuding PDF, Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other formats. The core feature is that...

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows