Open Source Search Software

DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

RED searches and deletes empty directories recursively below a given start folder and shows the result in a well arranged tree. Further you can create some custom rules for keeping and deleting folders. Empty files in directories can also be ignored.

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

A small application for listing the contents(files/folders/extensions) of a folder. The results includes file name length/full path length/maximum extensions. It supports exporting a report in .txt/.csv format with fully customizable contents.

File Marker is a cataloging program. You can list contents of folders with multiple filters. For each Each file you can rate it/check if viewed and add notes. You can also modify/add collections according to your needs.

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

Syncdrome is a standalone tool that creates a comprehensive catalog of files from your personal hard drives. It enables rapid keyword searches, delivering results in a style similar to web search engines. When a drive is connected, you can directly open files with your system’s default applications. The application lets you designate a working folder for storing the file catalog, which can even be located on a cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive for easy access from any device. With an intuitive interface, Syncdrome also provides a Navigator for exploring your synchronized drives, a Bookmark system to save your favorite files with comments, and a Folder Sync feature to keep directories consistent between locations. Additionally, its File Name Cleaner allows you to apply custom patterns and substitution rules to modify file names efficiently.

Puggle is a graphical desktop search engine written exclusively in Java. It provides full text and metadata search over files, folders, music, photos, web pages and more that are stored locally on your computer.

SharpFinder is a file indexing and searching tool.

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 is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

Search for duplicate files fast and with manual filters. Portable application/no need for installation

This is a python based UI application that can rename a part of a set of files inside a directory based on the provided regular expression. This gives a lot more flexibility compared to other renaming files since it used grouping principle. This had two level of applying the rename, first stage shows who it will be when you rename it, if you are fine with the change you can make it permanent by clicking commit. This avoid the risk of file getting corrupted. To rename all .py file to .pyc is as follows: Search for Regex: (.py)$ Rename using this regex: .pyw

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

CD/DVD cataloguing tool with support for ZIP archive and file metadata scanning. Can browse & search volumes offline and search within archives and selected metadata fields. Can import/export database.

Files, text, and bookmarks html/json search tool. It is able to merge duplicated bookmark links from multiple html/json files and export to html. The user interface is designed to be used by kyeboard in any aspect of its features scrolling list, select input field, menu bar, check and drop-down menu and so on. It's able to printout search list to pdf or system printer or save as text file. It allows to rename single file or change upper/lower case, join spaces in bulk mode with multiple level of undo and redo capability. You are also able to copy selected files to another location as single element or with its orginal parent folder usuful for audio and video files. You can launch the program associate with the file or open it in its container folder. For audio/video/text files you can configure for each of them a program to use and configure options to pass to the program. For example you could use, for example, Notepad++ and pass in its option "-n<number>" to open at certain row.

Java application using tree map algorithms to visualise disc space usage. Lets find forgotten large "space-eaters" files in an easy way.

disk manager is a CD/DVD archiving tool. It storys the directory contents of any media so you can search it later. Its also designed as file explorer which makes it easy to find big files. Windows Version supports native file context menus.

DiskAt is disk/media catalogue app supporting multiple categories per item, good search and features which allow to use it as Movie/DVD/etc database. Written with PHP/Python/SQLite.

A simple document management system (DMS). Documents and associated datas are stored in a single file. Keep all your documents in your pocket on your USB stick.

DupLichaSe is a very fast Duplicate File Detector that uses inductive heuristics to detect duplicate files very fast; based on content! DupLichaSe stands out from EVERY other Duplicate file detection Software because of it's graph based semi-automatic selection system. ... after finding 100s of duplicate files, do you have to go through some manual and possibly laborious process of deleting the duplicates? ...or is there a way for the Software to learn and do most of it for you in a SAFE and RECOVERABLE MANNER? YES!! There is!! ...This Software will ALSO help you and delete duplicate files, after you must have taken action on a a FEW important files(i.e large files that are duplicates). ++Thanks to its trivial Graph based suggestion System

(Production/Stable) High performance multithreaded enterprise solution. Generates 64 bit file CRC snapshots. Uses SQL database for advanced analysis. Suitable for finding duplicate, modified, added, and deleted files across multiple computers and disks.

Duplicate Checker searches your folders for identical files. It comes with an easy to use graphical user interface, and an effective command line mode.

The goal of DynaQ is to develop an inquiry system to explore the personal information space, supporting you with the searching paradigm 'orienteering'. DynaQ is a (desktop)search engine with enhanced functionality for file, email and blog search. Look at our GitLab homepage for sourcecode and documentation: http://dynaq.opendfki.de

E-Nature CD/DVD Archiver lets you easily read all files on any data CD/DVD to a local database. With the integrated search function you can search for files stored on any previously added DVD or CD in your collection.