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What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?

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Yatom:
Count me in for the search for the best file indexer/desktop search tool.
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You may want to try "dTsearch."  Of all the programs I tried (about six or seven, I think), dTsearch came the closest in overall functionality to Archivarius 3000.  However, aside from costing about $200 (while Archivarius costs only $36), the following were the truly prohibitive aspects that kept me from continuing with it.

#1) Long time to open large files.  I have multiple PDF files that are 500MB or greater, and one in particular that I frequently use that is ~1GB.  Archivarius displays it (plain text) in the preview pane in about 3 seconds, while DtSearch takes at least 60 seconds to do the same.  Since I deal with this particular file (and others of large size) I cannot wait so long each and every time I run a search.

#2) The Find on Page utility freezes in DtSearch when searching in large files.  For me, Find on Page is absolutely indispensable.  I have to have it.  And the fact that Archivarius and DtSearch both have a "Highlight all" option, so that you can type a word and it instantly gets highlighted anywhere it appears on the page, is indispensable.  Both programs do this; however, DtSearch literally jams up, or freezes when the file is large.  Archivarius never freezes up.

#3) Hebrew text always gets completely distorted (flipped around) in DtSearch.  This is a huge "no, no," as I deal with Hebrew frequently. Archivarius isn't completely perfect with Hebrew text, but it definitely handles it far better than DtSearch.  I wrote to DtSearch's Support about this issue (and they even mention it on their website), and the Support didn't have any helpful solution for it.

One advantage of DtSearch over Archivarius, however, is that it *did* find sticky note comments in my PDF files, which for some reason, Archivarius doesn't.  I would really like if someone here can correct me if I'm wrong, but can Archivarius not find notes in PDF files?

David.P:
Thanks Yatom.

The issues #1 and #2 that you noted would mean that dtSearch would also not fit my needs, as compared to Archivarius 3000 which displays those things instantly (at least when the index file is on a SSD).

I can confirm that Archivarius, while finding text box and highlighter comments, it doesn't find text in Sticky Note comments in PDF files.

Let's hope that Likasoft will be revived somehow... 

One could also think so, since they allegedly have many customers from large corporations such as Siemens or BP.

Have you guys tried Copernic Desktop Search recently?

I must say that I particularly like those "jump to search term occurrence" buttons and the multi-color highlighting:



It is a mystery to me why not every search tool has this very feature.

sphere:
Does Copernic Desktop Search find sticky note text?

I believe Copernic Desktop Search went to subscription mode. I have considered trying to find an older version for purchase.

Yatom:
I must say that I particularly like those "jump to search term occurrence" buttons and the multi-color highlighting:
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Archivarius does both of these things too.  See "Screenshot #1" attached here.What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?What Indexed PDF searcher (Desktop Searcher) has all of the following?  You can even change the colors around.

The only thing it can't do which would be really helpful for me is to allow the user to distinguish the regular search hit color and the Find on Page hit color.  In other words, if you choose pink for the results / hit color, then both your normal search (in the search bar) and anything you type on the Find on Page locator will be highlighted in pink.  You can't make different colors between the two.  That's a bummer.

But there is a workaround that gets as close to this as I could find--viz., you can designate the regular search hits to be underlined, while the Find on Page locator remains non-underlined.  Then, even though the hit color is the same, you can have some distinction between what your primary search result is, and what you are seeing in the Find on Page.  See "Screenshot #2" (attached) for demonstration.

I can confirm that Archivarius, while finding text box and highlighter comments, it doesn't find text in Sticky Note comments in PDF files.
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Actually, somewhat frustratingly, I just noticed that *some* sticky notes are beginning to show up in my searches.  How do I know?  I began putting a subscription like (YTAM 06-02-20) at the end of every sticky note that I write in a PDF, thinking that someday a program will allow me to seach the utterly unique "code" (YTAM), and suddenly all my sticky notes will be searchable.

That being said, since I started doing this, about half (very unpredictably) of my sticky notes *are* being found by Archivarius.  Obviously, this is no good, as it is totally unreliable.  But maybe(?) there is hope somehow.

What a bummer that the developer / support isn't around.  This is such a great program.  Just has some really nasty and annoying bugs.

David.P:
Archivarius [has "jump to search term occurrence" buttons] too.-Yatom (June 03, 2020, 12:03 AM)
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Yeah sure. That's why I can't switch to any program that doesn't do that. Like X1 Search, Lookeen, DocFetcher or FileLocator Pro, who all don't have that feature.

you can designate the regular search hits to be underlined, while the Find on Page locator remains non-underlined.-Yatom (June 03, 2020, 12:03 AM)
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How did you do that? I can't find an option like this in Archivarius.

What a bummer that the developer / support isn't around.  This is such a great program.-Yatom (June 03, 2020, 12:03 AM)
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So true.

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