Offline Search?

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Quoting Brian Chabot <brian at datasquire.net>:

> Does anyone know of a decent offline, cross-platform search engine?
>
> What I'm looking for is something like Google Desktop
> http://desktop.google.com
>
> ...but for offline use.
>
> What I want to be able to do is dump a whole bunch of files into a
> directory (or sub-directories) and have an application that can search
> them for keywords, strings, etc. This means it would need to understand
> PDFs, DOCs, OpenOffice formatted docs, text, html, etc.  The idea is to
> put it all on an external drive and be able to plug it in to any modern
> system (Linux, Windblows, Mac) and find what I'm looking for.
>
> So either Java or a ported application would work great. (I can't
> believe I'm actually advocating Java...) Even Perl would work, as it's
> available cross-platform.  Ideally it would be a stand-alone application
> not requiring any installation of libs, DLLs, etc.
>
> Anyone know of such a beast?

Have you looked at Namazu?

> Thanks,
>
> Brian

-derek

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