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Is there a search engine that supports searching using regex or wildcards?
I have a part of email address. I need to find a full one. Part of email address example: amazon***@gmail.com. I want to find all emails on web where characters instead of *. As far as I know, Google ...
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Local code search
I have lots of personal projects sitting around from over the years that I want to be able to search. Sometimes there is a package or a function that I want to re-use.
I want this to run locally as a ...
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Chrome search multiple webpages
I looking for a way how to search multiple pages simultaneously. For example, I looking for some product "my product" and I want chrome to open shop1,shop2,shop3 and search the "my ...
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Windows Hex editor to search with Wildcards/Regex in Hex-Mode
I want to search in hex for 00 [01-ff] [01-ff] [01-ff] 00. I tried the following editors:
Notepad++ with hex plugin
HxD
XVI32
Far Manager with hex plugin
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WinMerge
No hex editor allows searching ...
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Search for massive offline file collections
I'm looking for a solution that would allow indexing and search of large collections of files.
A brief description of our situation:
many (100+) engineers work on large projects, creating file ...
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Application/framework for effective search in text data from relational database
I have a relational database (Microsoft SQL Server), that holds text data in one of its tables. Text data are not in the English language. I want to create a new search system that would allow users ...
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Windows search which OCR's images and pdfs with text in them
I often have scanned pdfs or jpegs etc. which may have some text in them. One good example is screenshots that I take with screenshot captor.
Is there a way to make the Windows search "smart"...
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Text Search on specific websites
Google search works great and advanced search also lets me search particular sites.
But in my case I have a long list of sites (approx. 500) and I want to run a restricted search on only this set of ...
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Use a low res image to find the high res version?
I have a low resolution image. I know that I have a higher resolution version somewhere on a backup drive. Is there any software that can use the low res image to find the high res version?
Ideally, ...
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Projects similar to google books
Are there other projects similar to google books that allow (legally defensible) search, snippet view, and/or metadata exploration of non-public domain books?
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Change-tracking searchable backup server with user accounts
Requirements:
I'm looking for software (and cloud platform) for an R&D startup company to perform periodic backups to a secure cloud. The backups should track changes (like Borg) to avoid data ...
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Video frame lookup or search using verbal audio utterances
I'm an animator trying to get a program that will use machine learning to automate the lip syncing process. The program I need made will have two files given to it: a seed, and an audio file. The seed ...
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Best data storage for a quick search
I have an app with approximately 20-40 million new documents added each month. Let's say these documents have approximately 4-8 fields I want to allow the user to search from. Not all entries are ...
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Search for text in some videos
I have some screen recordings of the game and want to search for some concrete text there (title of the mission). What program can I use to achieve that?
Can use it on Windows or Linux. Freeware is ...
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Search tool for NAS
We use a NAS (connected to MACs via WebDAV) in our small company to acces our files from different locations. Searching within the NAS does not work well due to the amount of data stored and slow ...
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Search engine over text corpus
I have a couple of text file and I try to find the easiest way to drop all the files into one place and create a basic search query (with flexibility for little changes, search operators, etc.) over ...
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Search and Replace tool for Windows Registry
Please recommend a gratis Windows tool to perform search and replace operations in the Windows Registry.
I would like to select a Registry key and have the tool perform the search and replace ...
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macOS app to check if an image is already on the computer?
I'm looking for a photo de-duper app for Mac, but from a different angle than normal.
If I download a new image from the web, I want to know if I already have it on my Mac or not.
I have had trouble ...
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Is there a search engine with reverse search mechanism: processing multiple queries and retrieving a single result for each of them?
Most text search engines are intended for identification of multiple depositories storing the text of a user's query. I need one that does the opposite. Imagine we have two databases with overlapping ...
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Looking for software that allows me to look for a logo inside a group of images
I have between 60,000 and 100,000 images and 1.5% of them contain a specific logo. This logo is not always depicted in the same size or orientation. Is there a freeware program for Windows that would ...
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Software for categorizing data based on language and type
Currently, I'm using windows file explorer for categorizing. There are folders for years (2017, 2018, etc.) and each of them has sub-folders for types (type_1, type_2, etc.) and under each sub-folder, ...
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Is there any Android email app with advanced searching capability?
I have zillions of emails. I was suggested Bluemail app for Android but it sucks at searching.
I need to have something like Thunderbird has for desktops (no app, unfortunately) which allows me to ...
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Looking for a hex editor that can find specific binary sequence unaligned
I am looking for a Hex Editor that can do a search for a specific binary sequence, and find it in a file, without regard to byte alignment. I have an extracted and disassembled program that I am ...
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Python for large graphs
I have a large graph consisting of 30 million edges. Currently it is saved as a CSV file of the edges. I would like to run standard graph algorithms like BFS on it. Is there a library in Python for ...
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I would like to autoatically generate tags/keys that summarize each text document I have so i can search for them by tags/keys
In Short
I would like a software recommendation that summarizes a long text document and produces keywords for that text document. Ideally, it will exclude words like "with, and, the, etc." and ...
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I'm looking for a grammar/parser for elasticsearch query_string
What I'm trying to achieve is to generate a valid elasticsearch query_string form inputs preferably in frontend.
In worst case it can be generated in the backend (nodeJS, NestJS).
I'm looking for ...
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wiki WITH modern browsing/searching/filtering
I'm trying to create a website that allows access-controlled wiki-style article creation WITH modern browsing, searching and filtering of this content. The issue is platforms like mediawiki or ...
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GUI for searching the content of multiple large text files or PDFs?
I have a few dozen PDFs, each of which are very large. Specifically:
These PDFs total to about 15GB.
These PDFs are primarily scanned images of textual documents, but they do contain the text data (...
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Software / API to track new concepts or ideas from web searches
Is there any Software or API of Google,Twitter or other search Engines or Social Networks to track emergent or new concepts/ideas (words) or new combinations, made from the searches in the web, but ...
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Wiki + tags + search by tags
I need a MediaWiki-like user-editable CMS that supports pages tagging. The same tag system as in the Wordpress. And I also need a search-by-tags page which lists all unique tags and allows visitor to ...
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What are some good Javascript front end (web page) faceted search libraries as alternatives to filtrify?
I have a website that uses filtrify to provide faceted searching through a very long, involved list. This is working great and is a fantastic web-based, front-end only, Javascript project that takes ...
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Utility to search for text in a directory and display the matching lines as well as nearby lines
I currently use Agent Ransack to search for text in files in a directory. It will list all files containing that text in the left pane. If I click on one of those files, it will show all of the ...
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Video file duplicate finder (based on length/duration)
I am looking for a program that will find duplicate videos based on duration (eg number of seconds) and not based on size/MD5/thumbnails/etc. This is a very simple concept but I find it impossible to ...
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Linux text editor with server-side search over SSH
I want a Linux programmer's text editor with the possibility to search in a directory on remote server over SSH (I assume that the editor should call grep on the remote host and parse grep output.)
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Is there an application that allows to search across Evernote, Todoist, Google Keep, Twitter
I extensively use web applications for organizing my thoughts and notes, some of those go to Evernote, some go to Todois, some are left in Google Drive, something is on Twitter.
I wonder if there an ...
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Are there any good tools for applying searchable metadata tags to large documents?
I've googled this extensively, but there doesn't appear to be a common solution, or my keywords are inadequate.
We have a few large PDFs on the order of a few thousand pages each that describe some ...
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“Filter as you type” a large table (>100K rows)
I have a large table (>100K rows) that looks like this:
Movie | Genres
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Inception | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
The Dark Knight ...
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thunderbird addon that searches for HTML in email
I often need to search for specific details about an html-formatted email. As an example, I'd like to be able to filter by presence of an image source name (<img src="...">). However, even ...
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Software for communicating through google chrome (or any browser)
I don't know if there is a way to do this, but I assume there is a hackish way (as there almost always is).
Say I am logged into Google Chrome using my gmail (and so all my web extensions, ...
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Is there a program in windows which can search menu items like Ubuntu Unity?
In unity dash, you can search commands in menu bar of a program, is there a similar program on windows?
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Searchable multiple PDFs on website
I have a large number of PDFs that need to be published online.
Currently I use a database to store keywords for each PDF (as well as other meta data and the filename in order to provide a link).
I ...
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What tool should I use to find and move a large number of pictures in a bunch of folders on a hard drive?
Like to the tune of 200k pictures. I think many of them are probably duplicates. I'd like to move them all to one folder and look at them.
find all pictures on a hard drive, recursively; hundreds of ...
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Solution to search browser-URL-history first before the rest of the WWW
Yesterday I spent a whole day researching a problem I made when setting up a new laptop for Dual Boot with Linux--I deleted a required partition before I created recovery media for a system pre-...
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Travel-oriented map program or app built around advanced queries and relevant data
Google Maps and Apple Maps are both missing something critical for cities: public transit stations.
I opened up Apple Maps and all of the transit (train/bus) stations are missing. There's no UI ...
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Software for performing a reverse search - matching a body of text to a known phrase
I have a big list of known phrases. Given a body of text (Say a tweet) I'd like to see if it contains a known phrase from a large list. I'm sure something like this must exist (perhaps from the new ...
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Time based video search engine
I have a collection of demonstration videos and I would like to be able to store what happens in the videos so I can view snippets from them later on. each video might contain multiple patterns made ...
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To search almost any file based on context on Windows
I would like to get a software recommendation for searching files on Windows with advanced search features. Since the Search bar of Windows 10 is pretty slow and is not able to identify files faster, ...
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Utility that can search an image for a specific RGB code?
I'm trying to find a utility that can search an image for a specific RGB code and then highlight the exact pixels with that color code.
I can only find utilities that will tell me the RGB code if I ...
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Search & Replace Software which accept replace words count more than 234,206 characters
I have to replace words in files/folders with replace-words length (234,206 words).
Notepad++ does not allow replace-word-count more than 2,047 words.
TextCrawler 3 does not allow replace-word-count ...
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Search tool for scanned PDF documents and images
I am looking for a tool that is able to search for text in scanned PDF documents and images. I have tried Evernote and really liked it, but I do not want to have personal documents on someone elses ...
