The Sleuthhound description
International document search system for text and documents

The Sleuthhound is a useful and easy-to-use Personal Document Search System, that operates like a Web Search Engine on your hard drive.

Create 'Search Zones' with a 1-2-3 wizard. Folders and directories and entire drives can be included and automatically updated in search zones. Searches can be done by keyword (one, several, many), or by using file path or dates.

Boolean searches and use of wildcards are also supported. Keywords are returned instantly with the location in document, and the document title, file-path, icon, folder location and keyword context.

Results are displayed in a internal browser. View multiple occurrences of search words in the results browser. Documents may also be displayed completely in the new internal viewer.

Advance to further keyword occurrence also available in the internal viewer. Single-click opening of documents in the associated application.

Easy maintenance and update of search zones is available through a built in scheduler and can be done automatically when Windows starts by placing The Sleuthhound in the Start-Up group. Configure program to use European languages. Configurable results browser and new copy text functions added.

The Sleuthhound has a simple to use interface. Specify the Search Zone with targetted folders for search, enter the keyword and clicking "Find it" produces an instant keyword result and the located documents in the browser.

Shareware version returns searches for TXT, HTM, HTML and MS Word documents DOC and DOT (any version). Users may upgrade to Professional version to obtain further document search capacity via plug-ins.

Pro version will search for RTF, ANSI and ASCI text, and user nominated file types via universal converter. Additional plug-ins for the PRO version support WordPerfect, Adobe PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and Extended HTML file types.

All result displays are configurable. Most latin based languages may be searched including European languages with accented characters.