Indexer

Open Source (C#), full text search engine. Answers "where is the file? I need it now!" 

Must-have for software developers.

Installation instructions

• Download and install Indexer-2.3.5816.17660-setup.exe(~2.8 MB).
• Source code is available for download in Indexer-2.3.5816.17660-src.zip(~15.6 MB).

Change log

• since version 2.3.5816.17660:
• Fixed: context menu operation "Open With" did not work on Windows 7 and later
• Fixed: some xml files were not parsed with correct encoding
• Fixed: texts with accented characters were not preserved correctly in the text search history combobox
• New: menu command "Remove Seed"
• since version 2.2.3661.27803:
• Fixed: plain text documents starting with accented characters were treated as binary.
• since version 2.2.3628.20329:
• Fixed: saving large index (over 2GB of unpacked bytes) failed with Int32 overflow.

Features

• Easy to use user interface:

  

  1. Comma separated file masks (use * wildcard as usual). Empty file mask matches all files.
  2. Text phrase (optional).
  3. Toggle exact phrase/substring.
  4. Toggle case-sensitivity.
  5. "Search" button.
  6. Boolean operator to be applied to current search result-set.
  7. Clear boolean operator.
  8. Access search history. 
• No background processor utilization. Search when You choose in folders You choose.
• Create index once, search it multiple times.
• Show hits as syntax-highlighted HTML reports.
• Search for files using multiple file masks.
• Search inside all plain text documents (file extension does not matter), e.g. source code files.
• Integrated "Compare" command (redirected to file comparison provider).
• Search inside common document types (Portable Document Format (*.pdf), MS Word (*.doc, *.rtf), MS Excel (*.xls), MS PowerPoint (*.ppt), Web documents (*.htm, *.html)).

Advanced features

• Create index of one of more *.zip files, unpack them on-the-fly.
  Such a zip-files-only index can be created using menu multiple "Index"->"Add File Archive..." commands.

Known weak points

• No stemming.
• Indexing data files (files with lots of numbers etc.) takes too long.
• Limited support for boolean queries (and, or, ...)

Requires

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Client Profile (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...)

Recommended add-ons

• Install WinMerge file comparison provider (http://winmerge.org/downloads/)

Powered by

• Apache Lucene.Net (http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net).
• ICSharpCode.net ZipLibrary (http://sharpdevelop.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib).
• Colorer Library syntax coloring/regexp codes by Igor Russkih, Cail Lomecb (http://colorer.sourceforge.net).
• "Using IFilter in C#" (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/IFilter.aspx).

Older versions

• Binary: Indexer-2.2.3672.19008-setup.exe(~1.4 MB), Indexer-2.2.3661.27803-setup.exe(~1.4 MB), Indexer-2.2.3628.20329-setup.exe(~1.4 MB).
• Source code: Indexer-2.2.3672.19008-src.zip(~10.5 MB), Indexer-2.2.3661.27803-src.zip(~9.4 MB), Indexer-2.2.3628.20329-src.zip(~10.6 MB)