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:
· The paths to the settings and indexes files can be customized through the file miscpaths.txt.
Bugfixes:
· IndexOutOfBoundsException crash on some Outlook PST files.
· AssertionError crash when closing the indexing dialog after indexing.
· Crash on Outlook PST files containing e-mails without last-modified field.
· Crash when trying to index archives containing files whose names contain characters that are not supported on the current platform. For example, filenames may contain the ':' character on Linux, but not on Windows.
· The “Store relative path” option on the indexing dialog was broken.
· Crash when searching in an empty folder hierarchy, i.e. a folder hierarchy containing no indexable files.
· Crash when trying to index an extremely deep folder hierarchy.
· Expanding a folder in the Search Scope area while an indexing process is running in the background sometimes crashed the program.
· Portable DocFetcher failed to launch if it was moved between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows.