Text Filterer is an advanced desktop full text search tool.
It instantly searches for single words, partial words, Boolean word combinations,
or exact phrases within hierarchically organized collections of documents.
Classic Explorer-like interface allows you to easily switch between found documents
viewing their contents in the preview pane, and navigate through the found entries
in the text. Search results can be additionally narrowed by document name, type,
location, date/time, size, title, author, etc. You create search queries as persistent
filters usable across sessions. Switching between filters gives you an effective way
to explore the contents of a collection. TF supports plain text files, Unicode, RTF,
XLS, HTML, PDF, and uses MS Word for indexing DOC and other MS Word supported files.
TF supports many image formats such as BMP, ICO, GIF, TIFF, PNG, JPEG, PSD, WMF and more.
TF can search and extract documents and images stored inside ZIP and MHT web archives at
any level of nesting. With Excel files, TF provides capability to instantly search
multiple files for data by Excel columns and rows presenting search results in one view.
TF shows search results in the list view, with documents (or their parts called snippets)
as rows, and their attributes as columns much like Windows Explorer does. For a collection
of documents containing a series of text snippets, similar across the collection, you can
make the snippets units of your searches instead of entire documents. For a collection of
documents having distinguishable pieces of data, similar across the collection, you can
create user-defined data fields to make TF selectively search inside those pieces of data.
Column data of a search result can be saved to a tab-delimited text file for later
processing with a spreadsheet or database application. Found documents can be saved to a
chosen folder with the option to convert them into plain-text copies. TF has built-in support
for working with multilingual texts.