Document word search software

Search inside Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point), LibreOffice (Writer, Calc, Impress), Visio and text/ASCII files (RTF/TXT/CSV/MD/HTML etc.).
For all other files it will use fuzzy logic to check if file is text or binary. If text, it will search contents of the file for a match.
Works on Windows 7 or above. Requires .NET framework 4.7 or above.
Open source software developed in VB.NET 2019.

Features

  • Search inside Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Visio)
  • Search inside text/ASCII files (RTF/TXT/CSV/MD etc.)
  • Open files directly from the application
  • File pattern for searching inside specific file types
  • Search recursively
  • Search using ANY or ALL condition
  • Displays list of files searched and result can be filtered on status
  • Unicode support for non English characters search
  • Searches all word forms (e.g. catch will match caught if this option is chosen)

Project Samples

Office Search screenshot

License

GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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  • Excellent app for searching for words in Word, Excel, Power Point and other files.

  • Excellent application. It manages to find matching words inside DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, RTF and all types of text files. I like that there is no database to maintain and it searches in real time.

  • Brilliant app. It can search inside many not files like docx/xlsx/pptx/doc/xls/ppt/vsdx/vdx/xmind/odp/odg/odt/ods and text files.
    I like the fact that it lists all files that it tried to check for. Single portable executable, no faff around installing anything. It can also search using non-English language Unicode characters. It made my far easier by searching hundreds of Word/Excel/Power Point files in office.

    1 user found this review helpful.

  • 1. In a folder containing 3 *.docx files (at least), containing the sought string, Office Search found just one.
    2. I found no option for case-sensitive search, I have no clue if the search is case sensitive or not.
    3. I found no option to prevent the tool from showing the files in which the string was NOT found.
    4. There are some minor issues, too.

  • The single executable and full source code in VB.NET 2019 are included in the ZIP file. You can run the executable in Windows 7-10 with .NET framework 4.7+ installed.

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Additional Project Details

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop

User Interface

Win32 (MS Windows)

Programming Language

Visual Basic .NET

2020-07-28

When you’re using a search engine to find the closest coffee shop, you’re probably not thinking about the technology behind it all. But later, you might wonder how did that search engine do that?

How did it sort through the entire internet so quickly and choose the result you saw on the page?

Each search engine uses its software program, but they all work similarly.

They all perform three basic tasks. First, they examine the content they learn about and have permission to see; that’s called crawling. Second, they categorize each piece of content; that’s called indexing. And, third, they decide which content is most useful to the searchers; that’s called ranking.

Document search engines are useful for a large volume of the dataset. Because it is hard to get any useful information from that volume of the dataset, it’s necessary to come up with a solution that can help the business needs in the short term as well as the long term.

The primary features for a document search engine

  1. Searching: Keyword-Based Search, Topic-Based Searching, Semantic Search

2. KeyPhrase Extraction.

3. Text Summarization.

4. Highlight the query result.

5. Document Categorization.

6. Feedback Learning / Query Re-ranking.

Top 10 open-source Document Search Engine

1. Ambar

Ambar

An open-source document search engine as well as a way to implement full-text document search into your workflow. Ambar comes with automated crawling, OCR, tagging, and instant full-text search. Based on open technology similar to JavaScript, Python, CSS.

This document search engine is compatible with all the common file types like ZIP archives, Mail archives (PST), MS Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Publisher), OCR over images, email messages with attachments, Adobe PDF (with OCR), and several others. It is licensed under  MIT license.

Features:

  • Perform a Google-like search through your documents and images contents
  • Tag your documents to easily find what you need
  • Ambar supports all popular document formats
  • Ambar performs OCR on your images and PDFs
  • Easily deploy Ambar with a single docker-compose file
  • Use a simple REST API to integrate Ambar into your workflow

GitHub: https://github.com/RD17/ambar

2. Cider

The Cider document search engine is one of the valuable additions to our list.

The program is written in Java, this content integration framework can store parsed entities into Jena (http://jena.sourceforge.net/) RDF vocabularies and provides a knowledge-based enhanced semantic analysis of content. It is document extraction and retrieval. Moreover, it is released under the LGPL-3.0 license.

GitHub: https://github.com/yacy/cider

3. Open Semantic Search

Open Semantic Search

Another Dockerfile, JavaScript-based open-source document search engine; the Open Semantic Search supports different file formats, multiple data sources. The best thing about the open Semantic Search is that it is Free Software for your own Search Engine which is open-source enterprise-search and Open Standards for Linked Data, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data integration.

Features:

  • Full text search
  • Thesaurus and Grammar (Semantic search)
  • Interactive filters(Faceted search)
  • Exploration, browsing, and preview(Exploratory search)
  • Collaborative annotation and tagging (Social search and collaborative filtering)
  • Data visualization
  • Monitoring: Alerts and Watchlists (Newsfeeds)
  • Automatic text recognition

GitHub: https://github.com/opensemanticsearch/open-semantic-search

4. IResearch search engine

IResearch

A performance document-oriented search engine library, IResearch is a cross-platform that is written entirely in C++. It is focused on the pluggability of different ranking/similarity models.

This software is provided under the Apache 2.0 Software license.

Features:

  • It has a  library that is meant to be treated as a standalone index
  • Indexed data is treated on a per-version/per-revision basis
  • It allows for trivial multi-threaded read/write operations on the index
  • A database record is represented as an abstraction called a document. A document is actually a collection of indexed/stored fields.

GitHub: https://github.com/iresearch-toolkit/iresearch

5. hOOt

hOOt

hOOt is a free and Smallest full-text search engine. This software built from scratch using inverted WAH bitmap Roaring bitmap index, highly compact storage, operating in database and document modes.

Features:

  • Blazing fast operating speed (see performance test section)
  • Incredibly small code size.
  • Uses WAH compressed BitArrays to store information.
  • Multi-threaded implementation, meaning you can query while indexing.
  • Highly optimized storage, typically ~60%  smaller than lucene.net (the more in the index the greater the difference).
  • Tiny size, only 38kb DLL (lucene.net is ~300kb).

GitHub: https://github.com/mgholam/hOOt

6. Perlin

Perlin is one of the free document search engines build on top of Perlin-core. This software is written on Rust. It is released under an MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/CurrySoftware/perlin

7. MetaFinder

MetaFinder

An open-source document search engine, MetaFinder can be easily downloaded for free use. Available on multiple platforms, you will not have to worry about the platform that you are using. The objective is to extract metadata.

MetaFinder is written with Python and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.

GitHub: https://github.com/Josue87/MetaFinder

8. Search-engine

Search-engine is another highly innovative search engine for document searching that you can opt for.

Search-engine has written in Ruby, Python, JavaScript. it is used PostgreSQL, config.json.

GitHub: https://github.com/chihsuan/search-engine

9. Let’s CC

Let’s CC

Available in both professional and community editions, the  Let’s CC is another great free search engine service that you can use. The community edition is distributed under the CCL (Creative Commons License) and it is completely free to download. It is written in PHP.

GitHub: https://github.com/neomparam/letscc

10. Inteligent Document Finder

Document search engine tool that you can use. Programmed in Python, the software works on the Flask framework. It is licensed under  MIT license.

GitHub: https://github.com/Sarthakjain1206/Intelligent_Document_Finder

Conclusion

Such services don’t have to cost huge amounts of money since open-source solutions are available. We reviewed ten common open-source document search engines  which are all available for you to choose from.

If you have any additional software you would like to see in this list, then we would love to hear about them in the comments.

Here is a list of best free word search maker software for Windows. These software let you create word search puzzles for kids and students. These lets you enter a grid size for puzzle i.e. number of rows and columns. You can then add desired words which you want to include in the output word search puzzles. A few of these even provide an option to create wordlist from text or HTML file and include it in the final puzzle. Most of these provide a lot of puzzle customization options including word directions, title and narrative, text color, circle color, footer image, font, etc. You can also include solution in final output puzzle and customize solution format.

The final puzzle can be directly printed in all of these word search puzzle makers. Many of these also let you export final puzzle in PDF, SVG, PNG, BMP, JPG, GIF, etc. formats.

My Favorite Word Search Maker Software For Windows:

Word Search Creator by Matthew Wellings is my favorite word search maker for Windows. It provides a lot of puzzle customization options along with a few handy features like wordlist creator, various export formats, etc.

You may also like some best free Jigsaw Puzzle Maker, Word Guessing Games, and Maze Maker Software for Windows.

Word Search Creator by Matthew Wellings

Word Search Creator by Matthew Wellings is a free open source word search maker software for Windows. You can create a grid with number of rows and columns and then create a word search puzzle for it. It provides a lot of puzzle customization options plus supports a good number of output formats.

The main features of this word search puzzle maker are as follows:

  • You can customize word search by changing grid shape (mask drawer), setting allowed directions, etc.
  • It provides a wordlist creator which can create a list of words from HTML and text files. For this, you can specify max number of words and minimum and maximum word length. The wordlist can be sorted in alphabetical, word length, etc. orders. You can use this wordlist to create word search puzzle. Else, you can enter words manually too.
  • You can customize output puzzle by enabling show answer option.
  • It lets you customize font and color of title, word search, and wordlist. Also, you can set grid color, background color, and highlight color.
  • You can customize page layout and edit footer too.
  • The final word search puzzle can be exported as PDF or SVG file or can be directly printed. You can also copy puzzle as an image and paste it in any photo editor.

Word Search Creator by Canopus-Ware

Word Search Creator by , as the name suggests, is a free word search maker software for Windows. In it, you can create word search puzzle of a grid containing 8 to 20 rows and column. Here are some of its features which lets you customize word search grid and help you create a word search puzzle easily:

  • It lets you manually add words to create a word search puzzle, or you can even import a text, DOC, or HTML file to do the same. A maximum of 40 words can be added to a word search puzzle.
  • You can choose word search directions to create a puzzle.
  • It lets you place random letters to the word search grid to camouflage the words.
  • You can add a puzzle name too which will be included in the output.
  • After creating a word search puzzle, you can directly print it or save it in its native format.

Allin all, it is a nice and simple yet effective word search puzzle maker software.

FindThatWord

FindThatWord is a free open source word search maker software in this list. Here is the step by step procedure to create word search puzzle using this software:

  • First, create a new puzzle and enable “Force grid size to” option and enter number of rows and columns.
  • Now, type title of puzzle, narrative, and add words in one by one manner. You can add a hidden message too.
  • It lets you select what elements to show in output word search puzzle including Title and narrative, Word list, Grid, and Solution.
  • You can now save word search puzzle in its native format or export it as a PDF, SVG, PNG, or text file.

Word Search Maker

Word Search Maker is yet another free word search puzzle maker software for Windows. All word search puzzle customization options are provided on its main screen. You can specify grid size, words, and word directions to create a word search puzzle. Furthermore, you can also format puzzle by entering puzzle title, text color, grid color, footer image, word list position, etc. It lets you customize solution format too by customizing text color, circle color, footer image, title, etc. The preview of puzzle and solution can be seen on its main interface.

The final word search puzzle can be saved as a PDF file or can be directly printed. You also have the flexibility to save puzzle and solution separately as an image (BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, JPG).

Note: You will need a license key to unlock this software everytime you launch it. The license key is provided on the homepage which is given below.

Wordsearch Maker Junior

Wordsearch Maker Junior is a simple software to create word search puzzles. It has a fixed size grid (8×8) which is used in word search puzzle. The process of creating a word search puzzle is simple. First, you need to select a box in the grid and then right click on it to select a direction for word search. After that, you can type the word on the left side. Repeat this process to add multiple words to your puzzle. After creating word search puzzle, simply print it or save it as PDF using Options > Print option.

Word Search Generator UWP

Word Search Generator UWP is a free word search maker app for Windows 10. It lets you type a custom word list and specify grid width and height and filler letters to create a word search puzzle. You can customize output by enabling show puzzle, show answer, or show answer mark option and allow up to the right direction option. You can save the output puzzle as an image in PNG format or save it as a text file.

You can regenerate the puzzle to change the word positions.

Word Search Puzzle Maker

Word Search Puzzle Maker is a straightforward and basic word search puzzle maker for Windows. It provides separate tabs to add words and to create a word search puzzle using those words. Just add all words in Words tab; at most, 21 words can be added to a single word search puzzle. Then, move to Word Search tab to create word search puzzle. From here, you can save puzzle as PNG, BMP, or JPG image or you can print it. That’s it. You don’t get any customization options in it.

Published Date: 19 Aug, 2018

Modified Date: 17 Aug, 2018

Search Word is a search for all occurrences of a specific word or phrase in the Word document. You can search for specific text by full match or regular expression match.
The «Search» application allows you to search and analyze the text Word of a document. The resulting file contains a list of all use cases for the text in Word. Use it to parse the contents of the Word document, to examine the statistics of the text in the Word document, to calculate all defined vocabulary entries in the text. The search application works well with large files, you do not need to install additional software that may not give you a comprehensive understanding of the use of the search word in the document.
Use the regular expression standard to search using regular expressions. You can find the standard for regular expressions on the Internet, for example, at wikipedia.org.
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