dtSearch Desktop with Spider

dtSearch Desktop with Spider is a feature-rich program which comes equipped with a wide range of advanced filters to help you perform file searches. It's mainly geared toward experienced users.

At startup, you can specify a custom folder for storing all your configuration data inside, as well as enable automatic checkups for software updates.

Wrapped up in a user-friendly interface, dtSearch Desktop with Spider lets you conduct search operations by specifying a wide range of details, such as indexed word list, indexes to scan, search request, along with various features, like stemming, phonic, fuzzy searching or synonym searching.

Additional options are available to narrow down scan operations. For example, you can limit the search results to the best matching files, set file filters for matching and not matching names, indicate the file modification and size, and establish the search type between indexed or unindexed search only, or a combination between the two.

It's possible to examine search history, print information or save it to file, copy file names, use a basic search function for the results, create a new index using advanced options (e.g. cache documents, case sensitive), update or manage indexes, and list index contents.

Moreover, dtSearch Desktop with Spider lets you inspect document information, view retrieved files in report format, check out any image files associated with the current document, change the dtSearch personal folder previously defined at startup, or create an options package and handpick the settings you want to include.

You can tinker with settings concerning the indexing (e.g. document properties, filenames as text), letters and words (e.g. noise word list, maximum word length), filtering (e.b. binary files, languages to include), indexing resources, file segmentation, text fields, file types, Spider options and passwords, search options and results, user thesaurus, macros, document display, fonts and colors, PDF viewing, and external viewers.

The app used low-to-moderate RAM and low CPU in our tests while conducting search operations. It returned results in reasonable time and didn't trigger the operating system to hang, crash or display error messages.

All things considered, dtSearch Desktop with Spider proves to be a comprehensive software application for rapidly performing file searches by applying advanced filters.