File Details |
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| File Size | 0.1 MB |
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| License | Open Source |
| Operating System | Windows 2000/9x/XP |
| Date Added | May 28, 2005 |
| Total Downloads | 153 |
| Publisher | Fanelia Kingdom |
| Homepage | o3find |
Publisher's Description
o3find can find text in many StarOffice / OpenOffice.org documents. You can look for a word or phrase in multiple files and directories. You can also search other types of documents (e.g. plain text, Microsoft Office, etc.).
Latest Reviews
spiked reviewed v0.8.2 on Oct 2, 2008
Definitely a work in progress but if you need something free/open source to use in a commercial setting, there's nothing else comparable. If non-commercial, you could go for the free version of IFilterShop's StarOffice IFilter which plugs into Windows Search (as well as the older Indexing Service built into Windows if you've got that enabled but Indexing Service can't see documents attached inside Outlook email), allowing you to search with "fuzzy" matches across a wider range of document types, more like a typical web search (where you can get hits on variations of a word like "women" when you searched for "woman" or "ran" when you searched for "run"). Using o3find, you're only going to be searching for a specific string of characters, with the only variations possible being upper/lower case, in the file types implemented by o3find. I think a standalone tool like o3find would be valuable if cross-platform, but since this is Windows-only, it would be nicer if the author turned it into an IFilter.
spiked reviewed v0.8.2 on Oct 2, 2008
Definitely a work in progress but if you need something free/open source to use in a commercial setting, there's nothing else comparable. If non-commercial, you could go for the free version of IFilterShop's StarOffice IFilter which plugs into Windows Search (as well as the older Indexing Service built into Windows if you've got that enabled but Indexing Service can't see documents attached inside Outlook email), allowing you to search with "fuzzy" matches across a wider range of document types, more like a typical web search (where you can get hits on variations of a word like "women" when you searched for "woman" or "ran" when you searched for "run"). Using o3find, you're only going to be searching for a specific string of characters, with the only variations possible being upper/lower case, in the file types implemented by o3find. I think a standalone tool like o3find would be valuable if cross-platform, but since this is Windows-only, it would be nicer if the author turned it into an IFilter.