![]() A very mature and powerful software, although the price of $199 will likely make it unappealing to personal users. * dtSearch Desktop ( PC World review from 2011). Free, open source, and with a Google-like interface. * New addition, July 2018: Open Semantic Desktop Search. Could be used as a OCR tool for other desktop search tools such as dtSearch. * New addition, January 2019: Paperwork, free open-source software to help a scholar get to grips with their PDF pile, without hooking into some online service - it does OCR on all your PDFs and other documents and then searches across them quickly. However you may need a personal desktop search product that’s being supported and developed, perhaps due to the need to index a new file-format such as. The Index/Reindex menu-item was gone in these later versions, and the only way to reindex a whole PC was to uninstall, reboot, and reinstall. It can thus take an overnight run for the PC to become searchable. In later versions indexing just started automatically, and then runs when the PC is idle and there are new files to index. Note that in some early versions the indexing has to be manually started by you, and this is done by right-clicking the taskbar icon and selecting “reindex”… There are Indexing Plugins and the ‘Larry’s Any Text’ one can be easily configured to treat things like. For instance, a folder full of Gbs of PDF encyclopaedias and journal articles, ebooks, etc, presenting results in a familiar Google Search interface. But one can still download the last 5.9.1 version, and it happily installs and indexes and searches the full-text of your content. The Google Desktop Search software became officially defunct toward the end of 2011. ![]()
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