DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application. It allows you to perform fast searches for all documents in a given set of folders that contain certain keywords. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository. 

Supported Document Formats:
HTML and plain text (both customizable)
Portable Document Format (pdf)
Microsoft Office Word (doc), Excel (xls) and PowerPoint (ppt)
OpenOffice.org Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress
Rich Text Format (rtf)
AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw)
Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm)
Microsoft Visio (vsd)

What's New in This Release:
Features:
· Support for the old Excel format (BIFF5 from Excel 5.0/7.0) added. Earlier versions of DocFetcher skipped them with an "Unknown file format" error message.
· Support for macro-enabled MS Office 2007 formats added (docm, xlsm, pptm).
· The highlighting in the preview panel is now fully implemented.
· DocFetcher now indexes some PDF files on which it used to fail with a "No permission to extract text" error message.
· The default search includes filenames and a searchable field "filename" has been added (e.g. filename:"dog cat").
· Leading wildcards (i.e. search strings starting with * or ?) are allowed.
Bugfixes:
· On Linux, there was a subtle window focus problem after the user pressed Enter in the search box.
· On Linux, clicking certain buttons didn't work.
· Crash window appears while indexing MS Office files (bug #2929639).
· Temporary MS Word files are now silently skipped during indexing (bug #2927439).
· DocFetcher was unable to display the HTML preview for HTML files (including the Doc...