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 Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress
· Rich Text Format (rtf)
· AbiWord (abw, abw.gz, zabw)
· Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (chm)
· Microsoft Visio (vsd)
The portable version of the software can be found here.
What's New in This Release:
Features:
· Support for MP3 metadata.
· Support for JPEG Exif metadata.
· On the preview pane, you can now copy the selected text via a 'Copy' menu entry (i.e. by using the mouse, rather than the keyboard).
· Advanced setting for customizing the initial sorting of the search results (e.g. initially sorting by last modified date rather than by score).
· Advanced setting for turning off the reporting of obsolete index files on startup.
· Advanced setting for switching between indexing formulas and formula results in Excel files.
Bugfixes:
· Bug #367: DocFetcher was unable to handle UNC paths, such as hostamefoldername. It erroneously converted them to something like C:hostnamefoldername and then complained that the folder doesn't exist.
· The metadata extraction for MS Office files was broken.
Changes:
· Upgraded POI library to v3.9, this should fix a couple of MS Office related indexing errors.
· When copying files from the result table, DocFetcher now puts actual files on...