BeaconFind
BeaconFind is AI file search for Windows that runs entirely on your own machine. Press Ctrl+K and describe a file the way you would to a colleague, and it finds the document even when you cannot recall its name: "the rental contract with the deposit" finds scan0047.pdf.
Ordinary search matches literal keywords, so "salary" misses a payslip that says "compensation", and a scanned PDF has no text to match at all. BeaconFind indexes what files are about. It reads 70+ file types including PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, code and email, matches across 50+ languages so an English search finds a German document, and uses OCR to read text inside screenshots and scans. It also answers questions about your documents with citations and finds duplicates.
Every AI model runs locally. Files, their contents, your searches and the index stay on the machine, and there is no telemetry. Only a licence check and an update check reach our server, and both can be firewalled.
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FileSeek
FileSeek is an easy-to-use file search app that includes advanced functionality for power users! Search through files using simple queries or regular expressions. You can even sync your search settings between computers. FileSeek uses multithreading technology to improve the speed of its searches, making it able to out-perform any Windows search. With no background search indexing, FileSeek will never affect the performance of your computer while closed. Improve your workload by saving your search criteria as a search profile. Save, load, or modify your most common searches to make your life easier. With FileSeek’s tabbed search interface, there is no longer any need to wait for a search to be complete before starting a new one. You can start a search in another tab without opening another window, keeping your taskbar neat and tidy. Use FileSeek’s query language or regular expressions to search for specific information inside files or folders.
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AnyTXT Searcher
AnyTXT Searcher is a powerful file full-text search engine, a desktop search application for fast document retrieval. Just like a local disk Google search engine, much faster than Windows Search, it is your ideal free desktop file content full-text search engine.
It has a powerful document parsing engine built in, which extracts the text of commonly used file formats without installing any other software, and combines the built-in high-speed indexing system to store the metadata of the text. You can quickly find any text in any file on your disk by AnyTXT in less than 1 second. It works on Windows 11,10, 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2008, 2012, 2016,2022.
AnyTXT Searcher supports the following file formats:
Plain text (txt, cpp, py, html, etc.)
Microsoft OneNote (one)
Microsoft Word (doc, docx)
Microsoft Excel (xls, xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint (ppt, pptx)
PDF
WPS Office (wps, et, dps)
EBook (epub, mobi, azw3, fb2 etc.)
Mind Map Format (lighten, mmap, mm, xmind etc.)
OFD
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JustDocz
JustDocz is a privacy-first desktop document search and intelligence application for Windows that helps users find information inside documents, scanned PDFs, images, email archives, and attachments without uploading files to the cloud. It indexes content locally and supports fast filename and full-text search across PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, text files, email archives, and many other formats. Built-in OCR makes scanned documents and images searchable, and extracted text can be saved as TXT or DOCX. JustDocz also supports multilingual and phonetic search, making it useful for users working with documents in different languages. Optional local AI features allow users to ask questions and understand information across their documents while keeping data on their own computer. JustDocz works without requiring cloud storage or a login and is designed for lawyers, researchers, businesses, professionals, and anyone managing large collections of documents.
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