DocSearcher

DocSearcher is a search tool. It uses the Open Source Lucene and POI Apache APIs as well as the Open Source PDF Box API to provide searching capabilities for HTML Document HTML, MS Word Document MS Word, MS Excell Document MS Excell, RTF Document RTF, PDF Document PDF, Open Office Document Open Office (and Star Office) Documents, and text documents. Other file formats are currently not supported.

To perform a search you simply type in the keywords or phrases you are looking for and click the search button.

The search results will be presented in a Table. You can click on files as you would in a standard web browser.

To get back to your search results you can click on the Search Results Icon ().

There are 4 types of searches you can perform with DocSearcher: Keyword, Phrase, Boolean, and Wild Card. The example queries below describe each of these types of searches:

Examples Searches	What They Do
summer vacation -with the "keywords" radio button selected	Finds documents with the keywords "summer" and "vacation" This type of search is called a keyword search.
summer vacation -with the "phrase" radio button selected	Finds documents with the phrase "summer vacation" This type of search is called a phrase search.
"john smith" -"john brown"	Finds documents with the "john smith" but excludes document with "john brown" This type of search is called a boolean search.
virtu*	Finds documents with words that start with virtu... For example virtuous, virtue, virtuosity, etc... This type of search is called a wild card search.

For more information about Lucene you can go to the Lucene website: http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/index.html

The author of DocSearcher is John Brown (email johnbrown1024 AT netscape.net).