DocSearcher 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,
MS Word,
MS Excel,
RTF,
PDF,
OpenOffice (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
For more information and support you can go to DocSearcher website: http://docsearcher.sourceforge.net