DocFetcher Reviews

It's the best free application for indexing and viewing files

its bad. the GUI seems underdeveloped. you cant recommend that program to anyone who isnt willing to spend time figuring out how it works. isnt it part of dev ti simplify that? like - you start the program, have to go through a lot of text how and where to click and then have to add folder by folder manually. thats not intuitive. its quite unnecessarily complicated in fact. whats intuitive? just add a button for like "index whole pc" or "index location ..." its ironic and sad that this program is meant to be an "upgrade" to the win search when in fact its even less useful.

I am a long time user of X1 Search. I depend on it. I have my issues with it, but it does what it does reliably and very well. For various reasons, I am looking for an alternative to X1. That's how I found DocFetcher. I've only played with it lightly for a few days. I am really impressed! The main thing it seems to lack is preview in native format. But the preview pane displayed the text contents of docs I looked at without problem. But what matters most is the quality of the search, and DocFetcher totally works. Indexing the same folders as X1 it gives the same results for the same searches. Only to be expected, I guess. But it also seems as fast, with type ahead results. What it also *seems* to lack is the ability to refine searches the way X1 does, with secondary search fields for each column (type, date, name size, etc) of the listed results, for drilling down into the basic results. But that might be a lot to ask for! In the free version, I had a folder where indexing would always stall out right around the same point. Couldn't figure out why. But the Pro version (entirely rebuilt as I understand it, and still in development) had no problem at all! Very happy to have found DocFetcher in this important product category. Thank you!

Wonderful!!! Many thanks!!!

Kind of a clunky non-intuitive program but once you figure out how to use it, it works really well. I ran a test after indexing all my documents folder to search for the word "fudge" and the Docfetcher program found it used in some documents I didn't believe that the word could even be in. After checking each of these documents, lo and behold there was the word "fudge". So this program works as advertised.

Great!

Estuve buscando una alternativa a Search Inform Desktop Free, que permita buscar en documentos de Word actuales (.docx), y no he encontrado un programa gratuito mejor para Windows. Tiene un entorno funcional, cómodo y fácil de usar, y está en español. Es casi perfecto para buscar en los documentos de un PC, lo único que echo de menos es que no salta a los resultados en la vista de documento, en las búsquedas de proximidad válidas, cuando se cambia el orden de dos palabras. Por decirlo así, no hace búsquedas de proximidad simétricas .

I've been using this product for more than 7 years at work almost daily. It is the only Freeware I've found to replace Google Desktop which was decommissioned around 2010. It's not perfect but it is feature rich, portable, robust, fast and free. The UI very quickly allows you to view the contents of a file then move to another if you don't find what you need. Still blows away Windows Search. Thank you DocFetcher Dev Team.

I use this software multiple times every single day in my work. It does what it does extremely well.

Initially did not work on Windows 10 Pro. I provided all the necessary information and he promptly released patches. The program works fine as stated. I am grateful to the developer, I recommend it!

How the f*ck can some software be so BAD? I cannot index, no real settings, after 30 min this sh*tface applications said.... "oh no You are f*cked up". Thank You! "Advenced options" means in this piece of sh*t, that You have to read some fcking document, because the developers made some worthless trash, not a working program. How the Hell can someting be so bad optimized??? Thanks for f*cking up my day!

Great tool for daily usage; with huge potential in the Pro version that i'm waiting for. The design is a bit clumsy but the overall handling simple.

This little program is a life-saver for me. I have lots of small files on my computer -- letters, stories, poems and things like that. It is quite common that I will remember the line of a poem or a stories and not remember where it is from. I am very grateful to the people who created this and who make it available. I am not a technical guru at all and I have no problem using it.

A very handy tool for finding files on my PC

An amazing tool, helped solve a few different client problems. If anything looking forward to more development and a couple of more features!

Awesome tool, thanks for developing and sharing

Awesome program and brings actual results. I have been searching for years for such program, and I always wanted a program called "**Search", but it is premium and cost several hundreds of dollars. Doc Fetcher just does the job and for FREE! So thank you very much for it!

Full unicode support and zip/rar/7z archive search - these 2 killer features makes this tool an outstanding search engine for local purposes.

DocFecther is an outstanding product. I have been using various desktop search tools for >15 years, including paid mode ones like CDS, and none matches DocFetcher for my use. I have literally many thousands of .doc & .odt (LibreOffice/OpenOffice) files to search from in tens of directories. And beyond the actual searching, I need a simple, fast and legible preview pane. DocFetcher delivers all this. I haven't used it for too long but I saw no glitch, had no crash, which I can't say for other (expensive) tools. A few relatively simple functional enhancements would make its setting up phase much easier (for complex cases like mine), but that's only an initial pain. A few more tips in the documentation would help too. It's free (and without annoying ads) so I can install on my 3 computers. It's available on Linux. Last but not least : the support is incredible. I just wish the author will regain some bandwidth to bring a few enhancements but as it is, it does already the job for me.

Does exactly what it's supposed to do, and fast.

To search for part of a word use "*" (eg: *fetch* will find fetcher). (This essential trick should be more visible). Excellent to search and preview the result of MS word files. Thanks for sharing with us your time & talent!

This is a fantastic tool for my web development. Searching through ten thousands of source code files used to take a few seconds. This tool brings the search result back in milliseconds. It is incredibly fast!! Awesome work!! Thank you so much.

Great app! More useful than built-in Windows search. Can scan even 7zip files.

I use DocFetcher to help me to learn an ancient Pali language. I have hundred of files written in Pali, many Pali-English dictionaries and existing English translations of those Pali files. With DocFetcher I was able to quickly search the meaning of Pali words and create studying files based on these searches. I also know Vietnamese and this tool helps me to search Pali-Viet dictionary thus enhance my Pali learning. This has become an indispensable tool for my self-study education. Son T.

Ever since Google Desktop disappeared, I've been looking for something that indexes my hard drives. It's FAST! on the query. The ability to tune how the text is parsed, and the use of meta-characters makes searching incredibly flexible. The only downside is that it hangs on quitting on my machine (OS X), but I think that may be a Java thing. Quang has pulled off admirable service to our community with his (what I'm sure are thousands of) hours work. Thank you indeed!