Open Source Windows Search Software

DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Bowtie, an ultrafast, memory-efficient short read aligner for short DNA sequences (reads) from next-gen sequencers. Please cite: Langmead B, et al. Ultrafast and memory-efficient alignment of short DNA sequences to the human genome. Genome Biol 10:R25.

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++.

RED searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder and shows the result in a well arranged tree. Further you can create some custom rules for keeping and deleting folders. Empty files in directories can also be ignored.

grepWin is a simple search and replace tool which can use regular expressions to do its job. This allows to do much more powerful searches and replaces. Note: project has moved to GitHub https://github.com/stefankueng/grepWin

libjpeg is a free software library written for JPEG image compression.

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.

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that actively searches the directory you're currently in for a regex pattern. By default, ripgrep will ignore your .gitignore and skip hidden files or directories and binary files automatically. ripgrep has first class support on Windows, macOS and Linux, with binary downloads available for every release. ripgrep is similar to other popular search tools like The Silver Searcher, ack and grep. ripgrep supports arbitrary input preprocessing filters which could be PDF text extraction, less supported decompression, decrypting, automatic encoding detection and so on. In other words, use ripgrep if you like speed, filtering by default, fewer bugs and Unicode support.

Locate32 finds files and directories based on file and folder names stored in a database. Locate32 saves to a database the names of all files on your hard drives. Once the file indexing has occurred, you can locate files quickly by using the application's search form. It works like "updatedb" and "locate" commands in Unix. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog-based application as well as console programs that can be used to update and access the databases. Locate32 is not primarily meant to find text or data within files, but it has a primitive feature to do this.

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.

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that lets you store, search and analyze with ease at scale. It lets you perform and combine many types of searches; it scales seamlessly, and offers answers incredibly fast with search results you can rank based on a variety of factors. Elasticsearch can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from maps and metrics to site search and workplace search, and with all data types.

TLPD is designed to tackle the 'path name too long' issue. It scans the directory tree, searching for files and folders with full path name that may be too long for Windows to handle. TLPD is portable, has silent mode. ReadMe and source are available.

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.

An open-source, lightning-fast, and hyper-relevant search engine that fits effortlessly into your apps, websites, and workflow. Meilisearch is a flexible and powerful user-focused search engine that can be added to any website or application. Search-as-you-type returns answers in less than 50 milliseconds. That's faster than the blink of an eye! Deploy in a matter of minutes. Smart presets let you start searching through your data with zero configuration. Send data to Meilisearch however you want, no need to match a schema or convert your dataset to a compatible format. Everyone makes mistakes! If typos break your search experience, many users will leave thinking what they were looking for just wasn't there. Start searching through your dataset in less than 5 minutes and quickly connect your codebase to Meilisearch with our official libraries. Meilisearch is designed to work out-of-the-box, no configuration needed.

Launchy is a free utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, your desktop icons, and your file manager. Launchy indexes and launches your applications, documents, project files, folders, and bookmarks with just a few keystrokes!

Cerebro is an open source electron-based productivity software that lets you search and see everything you need on your PC in one place. With just a few clicks you can search on your machine or on the internet everything you need; see everything you need without having to open another application; and easily find and use what you want.

User contributed components that extends the functionality of NHibernate. More information in the wiki: http://www.nhforge.org/wikis/. Development List: http://groups.google.com/group/nhcdevs

This utility is intended to help in search or grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types. For help/usage, see the wiki page: https://sourceforge.net/p/searcher/wiki/Home/

Fuse.js is a powerful, lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies. Generally speaking, fuzzy searching (more formally known as approximate string matching) is the technique of finding strings that are approximately equal to a given pattern (rather than exactly). It might not make sense for every situation, but can be ideal depending on your search requirements. For example, qhen you want client-side fuzzy searching of small to moderately large data sets. Also, when you can't justify setting up a dedicated backend simply to handle search. ElasticSearch or Algolia, although both great services, may be overkill for your particular use cases. You can access all options above via Fuse.config. This is useful if you want to override default options for all Fuse instances. Fuse.js supports logical query operators. These operators are used for filtering the data and getting precise results based on the given conditions.

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

This tool enables users to search their NTFS formatted harddrives within seconds. It uses the MFT( master file table) of NTFS to search for files very fast. Ermöglicht eine extrem schnelle Dateisuche auf NTFS formatierten Festplatten.

A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.

Katalog is a desktop application to manage catalogs of disks and files: - Create catalogs from different sources or devices, - Search files even when the devices are disconnected, and find duplicates or differences - Organize your Collection of catalogs, Storage devices, and Virtual storage devices and get Statistics, - Data is stored in csv (tab separated) files for full control by the user, - Available in English, French, Czech, and German - OpenSource and cross-platform (Linux Plasma and Windows 64 installer or portable). First use / tips - Simply start with the Create screen. Create your first catalog and experiment! - All data/catalog files are stored in the Settings/Collection folder. Documentation/Wiki: https://stephanecouturier.github.io/Katalog/ Follow Katalog on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Katalog-107117844916308 Follow active development: https://github.com/users/StephaneCouturier/projects/7

FTimes is a forensic system baselining, searching, and evidence collection tool. Its primary purpose is to gather and/or develop topographical information and attributes about specified directories and files in a manner conducive to intrusion and forensic analysis.

Advanced Mass Search / Dork / Exploitation Scanner.