Description

This utility is intended to help in search/grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types.

Main features

• Search multiple directories for multiple content based on multiple file extensions.
• Allows searching in Word (docx), Excel (xlsx), Powerpoint (pptx) and PDF (pdf) documents.
• Allow searching in archives - .zip, .7z, .rar, .tar and .gz
• Page numbers in Word (docx) may not be exact using OpenXML(see http://officeopenxml.com/WPsection.php)
• Search using regular expressions.
• Shows list of files that were searched.
• Exclude files/directories from being searched in the current session or always.
• Open text files in preferred editor.
• Navigate to file location in explorer.
• Quickly view file content in a popup.
• Advanced configuration allows changing backcolour and displaying search execution times.
• Customise the UI based on settings in the preferences file (if set)
• No installer. Setup / installation not required.

Searcher is free software distributed under the GNU GPL. Ensure that the distribution package contains the following files:
* Searcher.exe - File content search utility
* COPYING.txt - License information
* README.txt - README file

Special thanks to the creators of the following libraries that is used by Searcher:
- Costura Fody - combine libraries into executable
- iTextSharp - reading pdf files.
- OpenXml - reading files saved using openxml format.
- SharpCompress - library to deal with many compression types and formats.

Additional Links

Using Searcher