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The capabilities go on and on, but at $199 USD, it is not an inexpensive product. I often build an index on the fly for a folder/subfolders that I want to search – indexing is very fast (as is searching). You may have any number of indexes, each of which may index any number of folders/files, and searches may take place on one or more of the indexes.

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Of course, you may set it up to update the indexes as frequently/infrequently as you want, and you may specify which ones get updated - if some data is static, there's no need to update its index. I currently have more than 50 indexes set up and configured it to update (a subset of) them every day in the wee hours.

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Indexing and Searching Features of Special Interest to Forensics UsersĭtSearch utilizes the Windows Task Scheduler to update indexes. Here's a link at the dtSearch site to a very interesting discussion of some features: Note, too, in the screenshot above that there is a Search History tab that retains your most recent 100 searches, making it extremely easy to re-run a previous, complex search. Here's the Search Request dialog:Īs you can see in the Search dialog, it also has More Search Options:

It has extensive search options, including stemming, phonic, fuzzy, wildcards (*, ?, and =), proximity (within 5 and within 25), synonym, any words, all words, Boolean, and exact/specific phrases.

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This is perfect for PDF Searchable Image files created by OCR. The algorithm detects sequences of text with different encodings or formats, and ignores the binary.

dtSearch has an interesting filtering algorithm that scans a binary file for anything that looks like text using multiple encoding detection methods.

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This makes the index much smaller than other products which also index the binary code (for no good reason). When dtSearch indexes documents that are mixed binary and text files (such as PDF Searchable Image files that have been created by scanning and OCR, as mentioned above with PaperPort), it has an option to filter out the binary. In other words, I use PaperPort to create searchable PDF files, but use dtSearch, rather than PaperPort, to index and search those PDFs. I even used dtSearch instead of the SimpleSearch feature built into earlier versions of PaperPort. Speaking of PaperPort, I use dtSearch for indexing and searching rather than the All-in-One Search feature that is built into the latest versions of PaperPort. The toolbar has user-friendly icons for navigation. The bottom pane shows the file that is selected in the top pane, with each search 'hit' highlighted. I made a test folder with some of my Experts Exchange articles in PDF format, indexed it, then did a search for ' paperport':Īs you can see, the top pane has header information on each document that matches the search criteria. Also, to improve performance, there's an option that lets you tell dtSearch to automatically open Adobe Reader for PDF files (the point is that Adobe Reader runs embedded in dtSearch and it opens PDF files much more quickly if Adobe Reader is already running separately when a PDF is opened in dtSearch). It has special handling for PDF files, allowing you either to view the PDF file in place (in dtSearch) or in a separate instance of Adobe Reader (and in both cases, hits are highlighted). You can control whether or not the external viewer is launched on a case-by-case basis, that is, you can have different actions for each and every file type. When you create or update an index, here's the dialog (note the special button just for Outlook):ĭtSearch has built-in viewers for most common file types ( PDF, of course - see below), but can also launch an external program automatically when the hit is on a file type for which it doesn't have a viewer. It can index any file type that has text, and it has special handing for Outlook files. I am simply a happy user/customer.ĭtSearch has two main components: an Index Manager that builds indexes and a Search engine that searches those indexes - very quickly! Here's the main Index Manager dialog:ĭtSearch has a large number of indexing options, which you can get a sense of from the Preferences dialog: and no financial interest in it whatsoever. It is an extraordinarily good piece of software! In the rest of this article, I'll refer to it as just dtSearch, for simplicity, except where I mention editions other than Desktop with Spider.ĭisclaimer: Before going any further, I want to emphasize that I have no affiliation with dtSearch Corp.

I have been using a product called dtSearch Desktop with Spider for more than 20 years: