Open Source BSD Search Software

CLucene is a C++ port of Lucene: the high-performance, full-featured text search engine written in Java. CLucene is faster than lucene as it is written in C++.

Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.

Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.

Laravel Scout provides a simple, driver-based solution for adding full-text search to your Eloquent models. Once Scout is installed and configured, it will automatically sync your model changes to your search indexes.

OpenSearchServer is a powerful, enterprise-class, search engine program. Using the web user interface, the crawlers (web, file, database, etc.) and the client libraries (REST/API , Ruby, Rails, Node.js, PHP, Perl) you will be able to integrate quickly and easily advanced full-text search capabilities in your application: Full-text with basic semantic, join queries, boolean queries, facet and filter, document (PDF, Office, etc.) indexation, web scrapping,etc. OpenSearchServer runs on Windows and Linux/Unix/BSD.

Aperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems (file systems, web sites, mail boxes, ...) and the file formats (documents, images, ...) occurring in these systems.

MiniSearch is a minimalist web search application with a built-in AI assistant that runs largely inside the browser for privacy-focused information retrieval. The project combines metasearch capabilities with local or remote language model inference to provide conversational answers alongside traditional search results. It is designed to be lightweight, easy to deploy with Docker, and configurable for both personal and hosted use cases. The platform supports browser-level integration so users can set it as their default search engine for quick access. Its architecture emphasizes privacy by avoiding tracking and minimizing data collection while still enabling advanced AI features. Overall, MiniSearch targets users who want a self-hosted, Perplexity-style search experience with strong control over data and models.

phpMorphy is morphological analyzer library written in pure PHP. Currently supports Russian, English and German languages.

A universal suite of utilities for large corpora processing.

A catalog application for various media types - CD, DVD, NetDrives, USB flash keys, etc. It can import data from famous WhereIsIt Windows applicaion. In a word this is a try to make a WhereIsIt-like application for Linux.

mairix is a tool for indexing and searching email messages stored in Maildir, MH, or mbox folders.

This is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

JavaCat is an app for managing files on your different drives (cds, hdds...). It's especially usefull for searching files on your exchangeable drives such as cds and dvds. Instead of digging through several disc just use JavaCat to find reqired file and

jFinder indexates your data files, so you can find easily files corresponding to a patern, i.e. to list your albums of Marilyn Manson, you'll type "mar mans". You can then enqueue them in your favorite media player.

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

Sgrep (sorted grep) is a much faster alternative to traditional Unix grep when searching large files, because sgrep searches sorted input files using a fast binary search to find matching lines.

SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) is a universal semantic content aggregator. It combines search, text analysis, tagging and metadata functions to provide new user experience of desktop navigation and document management.

Puggle is a graphical desktop search engine written exclusively in Java. It provides full text and metadata search over files, folders, music, photos, web pages and more that are stored locally on your computer.

Bible Concordance generator and viewer for UNIX/Linux/Cygwin, written in C. Supports multiple word searches using boolean operators and Reverse Polish notation. Unlike printed concordances, shows complete verse, and in context.

Plait (pronounced "play") is a command-line jukebox and music player front-end. It understands brief queries that pick a single song, mix queries that combine works from multiple artists, and stream queries that find Shoutcast radio streams.

cgrep provides many of the features of grep, egrep, and fgrep with greatly enhanced performance along with many additional features, one of which is the ability to output the context (surrounding lines) of the matching lines.

Enable your academic documents on your hard-drive to be searched using an automated solution with limited user-intervention. All this is done in a non-intrusive manner, ensuring your files are not moved.

This is a python based UI application that can rename a part of a set of files inside a directory based on the provided regular expression. This gives a lot more flexibility compared to other renaming files since it used grouping principle. This had two level of applying the rename, first stage shows who it will be when you rename it, if you are fine with the change you can make it permanent by clicking commit. This avoid the risk of file getting corrupted. To rename all .py file to .pyc is as follows: Search for Regex: (.py)$ Rename using this regex: .pyw

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BeanQuery is a Java solution that allows for querying arbitrary collections of arbitrary object types by using a criteria like API in a declarative and typesafe manner.