DocFetcher
| Company type | Free software |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software |
Area served | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux |
| Products | Desktop search utility |
| Website | docfetcher |
DocFetcher is a free, open-source desktop search utility available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms, developed using the Java programming language. Its user interface is constructed with the Standard Widget Toolkit.
Operating as an indexing search application, DocFetcher builds and maintains a local content database, which allows for immediate search responses by continuously tracking modifications in files. This software utilizes Apache Lucene, a popular open-source search engine framework.
Features
- Support for Unicode characters
- Comprehensive full-text searching across numerous document types, such as:
- Office documents (Microsoft Office, OpenDocument, Microsoft Outlook (PST))
- EPUB and PDF formats
- RTF, SVG, and plain text files
- Metadata from audio files (MP3, FLAC)
- Metadata from image files (JPEG)
- Archive file formats (ZIP, 7z, RAR, Tar) including support for nested archives
- HTML files with detection of related resource files, linking HTML documents to corresponding folders containing images and scripts
- Index automatically refreshes when files are modified
- Capability to exclude specific files from indexing using regular expressions
- Sophisticated query syntax featuring boolean operators (
OR,AND,NOT), wildcards, phrase matching, fuzzy searches, and proximity queries - Multilingual interface with translations available in Chinese, Italian, Ukrainian, and partial localization in French, Japanese, Spanish, and German
A commercial edition named DocFetcher Pro is being developed to provide additional advanced functionalities.