Text-search Software

Examine32 Text Search is a fast and versatile text search utility. It can search both text and binary files using ordinary text, the logical operators OR, AND, NOT and XOR, and GREP-like regular expressions. Files within ZIP archives can be searched. Searches can be across multiple drives over networks or can be restricted to a single folder.

RQ Search and View is a simple utility used to search and view text in files for Microsoft Windows 98/XP. File formats supported are text files with Windows, Rich Text Format (RTF), HTML (web pages). You shouldn't create index files before searching and waiting search finishing to view found files. When first file found - you can view and edit it in build-in editor. The search data can be saved to disk and retrieved later.

Find will often fail when the search for text is inside a zip. This program will do a text search inside zipped files. You can specify the files to search (e.g. *.txt + *.doc) as well as the the search string. Subdirectories can be done too. Double-clicking a file on the final list will open the zip in you associated zip program.

XSearch32 is Full Text Retrieval System for Win 9x/NT/ME/2k with multilanguage support to search in XML files. It is made from well known Search32 full-text search utility and supports search in XML formatted files. Search for whole words, parts of words or combinations of words joined with logical operations AND, OR and NOT. Search in the entire text and/or in XML elements. Supports proximity search (NEAR). View more than one line of source te..

Text Search Tiffs is a Utility that batch processes tiff images into text searchable tiff images for use with Microsoft's Document Imaging. The text can be searched using Document Imaging and the Search engine that comes with Windows. This utility allows the user to specify folders where the images are and have them processes in a batch mode as opposed to opening each one in Document Imaging, OCRing the document and saving it.

Handy-dandy text file search utility will quickly and easily find those files containing piece(s) of text. It allows boolean combination (AND/OR/AND NOT) and remembers your previous searches to save you re-entering commonly used configurations. It can show you the lines from the file that matched, and you can simply drag the matched files to the application of your choice.

QuickSearcher is a file search tool. Decided superiority is Preview for text search (as well as preview for graphical files), ability to search within several folders (multi directory search) or within search results, setting favorite search folders and off course, ability to save that search results. Another useful feature is searching within some archive files (ZIP for example) and searching for MS Office documents and MP3 files.

Text search with Boolean and NEAR or proximity operators. ANSI/OEM search and conversion on the fly which is not unimportant since there is a lot of old DOS text around and umlauts and accents may give problems here. Sets of found files can be saved. There is a TXT/RTF editor which understands OLE and has recursive search and replace. You can see HTM files without the HTM codes, but WanyWord is NOT a HTM editor.

With HandyFile Find & Replace tool you can quickly find and replace text in a bunch of files! Diverse file filters, various search attributes, regular expressions with extended syntax, search scenarios, command line support give you full control over processing text in all the desired files. Creating HTML reports for the search and replace process makes it highly valuable tool for web masters and web coders.

Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network, including text and binary files, compressed archives, MS Word, Excel and PDF, etc. Find the information you want with powerful text patterns (regular expressions) specifying the form of what you want, instead of literal text. Search and replace with one or many regular expressions to maintain web sites, source code, reports, etc. Extract statistics and knowledge from logs files.