Searcher Files

Searcher
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Searcher is a utility to search file content in Windows. This utility is intended to help in search/grep for multiple content in multiple locations for multiple file types. It mainly supports the ASCII and UNICODE file formats.

Searcher Copyright (C) 2018-2024 Dennis Joseph.

The main features of Searcher: 

  - 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    - This file

  Special thanks to the creators of the following libraries that is used by Searcher:
   - MsgReader     - reading email file formats.
   - OpenXml       - reading files saved using openxml format.
   - PdfPig        - reading pdf files.
   - SharpCompress - library to deal with many compression types and formats.

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