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Full Featured Search Program

Hi Experts!

Do you have any knowledge of a search engine program could be purchased to put on server/desktops that could pinpoint to a directory on the server (or multiple directories) to search for certain words within the document, certain words within the name of the document, a specific document type, the date it was created, etc./all of the above? The trick is that the search engine must be able to search within each document and must be able to search all types of documents - Word, PDF, Excel and all other type files – especially pdf files.

Thanks!

-Joe

David Favor

With Macs, this is baked into (included) in the search function. Default search is file contents or you can choose file names.

Surely the search facility on Windows does the same.

Lookup how to do advanced searching for your specific Windows version.

Likely this feature already exists.

Joe Thompson

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The windows search function works, but is not feature rich enough to just return a folder on a server share containing X text that I've found. So I was looking for something that can index all the data and search quickly to respond to a query.

Joe Winograd

Hi jetcosys,
I'm working on an answer for you — and I think (hope) you'll like it — but it is quite long and I've decided to publish it as an article here at Experts Exchange. So it may take a while to complete, but as soon as it's ready, I'll post the link to the article here for you. Regards, Joe

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Joe Thompson

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Looking at X1 now, will let my client test it out. I assume the local index also stores information on mapped server drives?

NVIT

> ...local index also stores information on mapped server drives

YES. Either mapped or un mapped UNC

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Ok, thanks Joe. I've given my client the information and they are going to evaluate the three products you guys have recommended. So far, X1 is looking pretty good, thanks NVIT!

-Joe

Joe Winograd

You're welcome, Joe. Yes, X1 is a "pretty good" product (even better than that, I would say) and has been for a long time. I checked MyPKb here at EE and found my recommendations for X1 going back more than five years. It's not in the same league as dtSearch, but neither is its price. :) At $50, it's an excellent value (so is Copernic at the same price, also mentioned in my post from last year and the one from five years ago and many posts in between). Search would have to be very important for you (it is for me) to spend $200 for dtSearch Desktop with Spider, or even more for other editions, such as Network with Spider (lower price per seat, but higher cost overall), Web with Spider, Engine, and Publish. Regards, Joe

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