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Free alternative to Windows Search (full-text indexed search) or non-Java alternative to DocFetcher
I use Agent Ransack. I think it's a nice complementary to Search Everything and I use both in parallel, because they serve different things: file content search and file name search.
Agent Ransack ...
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Building a search index, and querying it from the command line
I am not sure what giant volumes means to you, but http://sary.sourceforge.net/ might be a place to start.
On one of our systems we run glimpseindex every night. It produces an index and has a few ...
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What's the best approach for archiving/storing many files to easily access them later?
Maybe you should consider Owncloud? Here is a quote from it:
Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify.
The way I often introduce OwnCloud to somebody ...
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Markdown document management system (search index over all *.md files across the system)
You can try Everything.
Try to search md files and add a content search parameter to search inside content.
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File Organizer and Indexer for an External SSD Drive
Have a look at something like Recoll.
It enables indexing of external drives, caters for many file types, etc. it also runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX.
This datahoarder forum may also have some good ...
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Simple web-based desktop search app
For Linux desktops, the indexing tool Pinot covers at least some of the needs:
A background daemon indexes document contents and metadata, and a client search tool can then do queries in both those ...
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Most Comprehensive (Free or Paid) Full-Text Indexing Tools for Windows and Linux Desktop
Datashare (free/open source)
https://datashare.icij.org/
https://github.com/ICIJ/datashare
Datashare is a free open-source desktop application developed by non-profit International Consortium of ...
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Most Comprehensive (Free or Paid) Full-Text Indexing Tools for Windows and Linux Desktop
I must say you got me intrigued. I've been using Everything for a lot of years now since Google Desktop Search has died, and Copernic always seemed a bit off.
With @Gounou's suggestion Recoll, I ...
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Most Comprehensive (Free or Paid) Full-Text Indexing Tools for Windows and Linux Desktop
I've tested Recoll.
From the documentation :
Recoll is based on the very capable Xapian search engine library, for which it provides a powerful text extraction layer and a complete, yet easy to use, ...
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Solution to build a quick web-based documents search engine
You can use a standard Document Management Systems here.
As an example I know (no endorsement): For TYPO3 CMS you can use the built-in search "indexed_search", or you can install various ...
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Building a search index, and querying it from the command line
Recoll seems to do what I'm looking for:
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/
Installation
sudo apt-get install recoll
Build an index
cat videos.txt | recollindex -if
Manpage:
recollindex -i ...
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CD Bible Generator Software (not religious)
Old question, hence not sure if resolved. But an alternative approach would be to use a "personal wiki" for creating/organising the documents, and then burn to CD.
For instance, you could try ...
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Software to find JPG among thousands of locally-stored scanned documents
Alfresco+Tesseract can do this. On the plus side, it is free. On the minus side, it requires a good deal of configuration, it is rather memory-heavy, and it has to be running all the time. (Honestly ...
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A Tool to manage lots of documents/notes?
Checkout Tagspaces. it's main purpose is to tag folders and documents for easier searching, plus it provides inbuilt markdown document creation. here is the site: tagspaces
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Document manager for paperless office
I would suggest paperless-ngx.
can store and index PDF and other document formats (with the help of OCR)
it's open source
provides a tag mechanism so you can look for certain documents
has a fancy ...
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Markdown document management system (search index over all *.md files across the system)
Something based on Xapian, like Recoll:
http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/pages/recoll-windows.html
It can be fine grained configured to exclude files or folders.
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Free alternative to Windows Search (full-text indexed search) or non-Java alternative to DocFetcher
While I love Archivarius 3000 by Likasoft, and have used it for many years, I am also looking for a stable replacement, but only because Likasoft seems to be no longer operative.
One more tool that I ...
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