DocFetcher

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Last Update: 2026-01-19

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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.

Features

Portable version available
Full Unicode support for all supported file formats
Can read the following archive formats: zip, 7z, rar, tar.*
Can read Outlook PST files

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Text-only preview with search term highlighting

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Eclipse Public License

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viorel-s****iuc Posted 2026-05-18

It's the best free application for indexing and viewing files
robert34 Posted 2024-10-29

its bad. the GUI seems underdeveloped. you cant recommend that program to anyone who isnt willing to spend time figuring out how it works. isnt it part of dev ti simplify that? like - you start the program, have to go through a lot of text how and where to click and then have to add folder by folder manually. thats not intuitive. its quite unnecessarily complicated in fact. whats intuitive? just add a button for like "noindex whole pc" or "noindex location ..." its ironic and sad that this program is meant to be an "upgrade" to the win search when in fact its even less useful.

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veronicatide Edited 2023-09-12

I am a long time user of X1 Search. I depend on it. I have my issues with it, but it does what it does reliably and very well. For various reasons, I am looking for an alternative to X1. That's how I found DocFetcher. I've only played with it lightly for a few days. I am really impressed! The main thing it seems to lack is preview in native format. But the preview pane displayed the text contents of docs I looked at without problem. But what matters most is the quality of the search, and DocFetcher totally works. Indexing the same folders as X1 it gives the same results for the same searches. Only to be expected, I guess. But it also seems as fast, with type ahead results. What it also *seems* to lack is the ability to refine searches the way X1 does, with secondary search fields for each column (type, date, name size, etc) of the listed results, for drilling down into the basic results. But that might be a lot to ask for! In the free version, I had a folder where indexing would always stall out right around the same point. Couldn't figure out why. But the Pro version (entirely rebuilt as I understand it, and still in development) had no problem at all! Very happy to have found DocFetcher in this important product category. Thank you!
cinturao Posted 2023-04-24

Wonderful!!! Many thanks!!!
bobhurd Posted 2023-02-03

Kind of a clunky non-intuitive program but once you figure out how to use it, it works really well. I ran a test after indexing all my documents folder to search for the word "fudge" and the Docfetcher program found it used in some documents I didn't believe that the word could even be in. After checking each of these documents, lo and behold there was the word "fudge". So this program works as advertised.

Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Intended Audience

Advanced End Users, Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Java SWT

Programming Language

Java, Python, Unix Shell

Related Categories

Unix Shell File Managers, Unix Shell Search Software, Unix Shell Source Code Management Software, Python File Managers, Python Search Software, Python Source Code Management Software, Java File Managers, Java Search Software, Java Source Code Management Software

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2007-06-05

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