Open Source Search Software

SystemTrayMenu is an open source 'Desktop Toolbar' or 'Start Menu' alternative. It offers a clear, personalized menu which can be controlled via keyboard, mouse or touchscreen. Files, links and folders are organized in several levels as dropdown menus. Various options like appearance, hotkey, autostart and behavior can be adjusted. It is written in C# and using .NET 7. SystemTrayMenu is portable, so it does not need to be installed. After downloading the zip file, unzip the folder, then start SystemTrayMenu.exe. After starting the application the first time you have to choose the root directory. In this directory you should put shortcuts, files and folders (App, Game, Script, URL, Network), which you are often using and especially when you can not find them over the windows start menu search. You can also consider to put there all files from your desktop. If you have ideas, questions or a problem you can contact the developer Markus Hofknecht via GitHub or email.

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 multiple languages - 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

All my USB Contents - Storage Catalog is a media cataloging tool to index media contents This utility acts as a helpful librarian to help you keep track of documents, music, videos, and program files. Storage Catalog essentially downloads materials from either a CD or drive into an independent database that you can then organize any way you choose. This is a powerful and quick program that should be handy for both experienced home users and system administrators. The operation at the base of the program is simple: a device (USB / CD / folder) is scanned, the tree is reconstructed recursively with all the folders and files and all informations are stored in a SQlite DB. Now you can unplug the device and assign a category or a comment to each file or folder. You can perform searches by entering the song title, artist, filename and the program tells you on which device the file is. Moreover categorizing the various files and folders you can put everything according to logical group

This program is a GUI for the command line tool grep and pdfgrep. Pdfgrep search text in multiple PDF files and grep can serach text in multiple text files. You can use regular expressions for the search (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression). This GUI and the command line tools work without indexing. The following options are used: -i (ignore case) and -F (fixed strings), -n (Print page number or output lines) and -H (Print the file name for each match) from the command line tool. The -r option will be done by the program itself. Performance: This GUI works well when searching in several hundreds of documents (depends on the speed of your computer and the length of the documents). Config Dir: [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui Available Languages: - English - German You can add your own language by editing the file [homedir]/.config/pdfgrepgui/language.set

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.

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.

Windows extension that lets its user query the internet for unknown file types, media files or any other files.

This small C# (mono or MS.NET 3.5 required) console program generates text or html output which lists directories and files. Copies of directory or file names will be marked in HTML output. I use it to find files in a messy company network.

eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree.

Search Help is a very helpful and easy-to-use program. You can search for web pages, photos, lyrics or you can translate words from german to english and otherwise. Search Help uses some of the well-known search engines to get results.

CD Maze is an easy to use CD-ROM/DVD-ROM catalog system for the GNOME/Unix/Linux-Desktop.

Are you disaffected with the slow File-Searching function on Windows operating systems? Even the file-index-service doesn't improve the performance?! Filesearcher will find files, that match user-defined patterns in a few seconds!!

A Python/Tk gui for find and grep. FindEmAll is, compared with other similar file search tools, fast and resource-efficient and independent from any desktop environment (no Gnome or KDE libraries required).

"Findeo" is a plattform-independent open-source desktop-search tool, that supports many common file-types like MS-Word, PDF, etc.

The GIS Metadata Manager is a simple Java-based desktop application to manage files from geographic information systems (GIS) in a specified directory by grouping files into records, adding metadata and searching the metadata to find files.

Maloney finds documents, mails, photos and many other files on your desktop computer. It comes as a standalone application or as a plug-in for your eclipse IDE.

OOSearch is a full text search program for OpenOffice.org files. It opens all OpenOffice.org files in a specified directory or volume and searches for a given keyword. The found files can be opened via OOSearch directly.

The Quick (Phone)number informationsystem for Windows. Adds hotkey to windows to search for Phonenumber, Name or Short sign.

a Solr Based Semantic Mediawiki Store

A set of programms which utilize TreeViews to display data and information in a hierarchical and concise way. One is TreeText, displaying your notes attached to a node in a TreeView. Next is NetSync: The maybe best Folder Compare & Sync Tool you can find

A fast and efficient method to find all terms in tons of HTML-files by exact search, part-word-search and fuzzy search. Time and memory fall considerably below the requests of common search engines.

Set of various network observing and searching services (FTP indexer, SMB indexer, gameserver pinger and history logger, web interface for search and management) mainly for LAN-Parties. Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, IIS, MSSQL, Access, TCPIP

gDiscoverer is a search tool, that is providing a inexact search, that means, that you could type in "lunex" and get "Linux" as result.