DocFetcher

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DocFetcher
Developer(s) DocFetcher project
Stable release
1.1.25 / May 25, 2021
Written in Java
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux
License Eclipse Public License
Website https://sourceforge.net/projects/docfetcher/

DocFetcher is a free and open source desktop search application. It runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and is written in Java. [1] The application has a graphical user interface, which is written using the Standard Widget Toolkits. [2]

Contents

The program is an indexing search tool, meaning it has a local database of file content that it checks, rather than looking over all files on your machine. This means the program must always be running to monitor changes, but search results are instant. Search tools are based on Apache Lucene software, [2] a widely-used, open source search engine.

Features

Note that a commercial version of the program DocFetcher Pro is in development [4] with additional features.

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References

  1. DocFetcher homepage , retrieved 2016-12-04
  2. 1 2 "start - DocFetcher-Wiki". docfetcher.sourceforge.net. Retrieved 2020-05-18.
  3. "DocFetcher translation on Transifex". www.transifex.com. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  4. "DocFetcher Pro" . Retrieved 18 July 2021.