I love DocFetcher! I discovered this gem of a program when Windows stopped supporting string searches in word processors other than Word.
I use https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html to index and search large repos of docs. I use Papermerge for my digital file cabinet though. DocFetcher is good for searching an existing repository of files. Source: about 1 year ago
As they state, it is crap-free, free forever, cross-platform, portable, private (local only), and indexes only what you need. You can also set minimum and maximum file sizes to index. See https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: about 1 year ago
What I'd recommend is setting up a digital and/or physical technical library. Download any useful documents, books, standards etc. and store them in a clear, concise folder structure. Then create an index of the library with a tool like DocFetcher. (Think of it as Google for your technical library) This should make it fast and easy to find the relevant information when you need it. Source: about 1 year ago
DocFetcher? https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 1 year ago
I use Outlook for e-mail and calendars. I use Evernote to store my notes. I also have a folder in Dropbox called "docs" where I store TXT (and others like DOCX and PDF etc) files for tasks/projects like the cisco firmware update example. I use DocFetcher (https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html) to perform search on the stored notes in TXT / DOCX / PDF / etc. Source: over 1 year ago
DocFetcher. It works with docs, PDFs, epubs, TXT, HTML files and many other formats. You create a full-text index once, and after that the program will find all keyword/phrase occurrences in no time, with a preview snippet and a link to the file. Source: over 1 year ago
DocFetcher would probably do the trick. Is free and open source and It indexes :. Source: over 1 year ago
Try DocFetcher, Anytxt Desktop Search or desktop search engines. Source: almost 2 years ago
There are great CLI tools already in this thread, but for some of my side-gig work I'm searching large piles of PDFs, docs formats, and ePubs with a GUI word processor open and need to reference the source by page/graf number. For those I use DocFetcher[1], a quirky and intermittently updated Java app that indexes file contents and provides rudimentary relevance searching along with regex. I index my docs, put the... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Have you tried setting up DocFetcher? http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: over 2 years ago
I've been using Docfetcher to do this, but I think your idea is probably much more user-friendly. Nice work! Source: over 2 years ago
Indexing and search PDFs on your own computer: http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html. Source: almost 3 years ago
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