Panofind Changelog

What's new in Panofind 1.1.0

Mar 30, 2024
  • Features:
  • Added an additional application for detecting text in image-only PDFs (OCR)
  • PDFs which have images (but no detected text) will be proposed during indexing for detecting text
  • Added support for RAW photo files (ARW, CR2, HEIC, NEF, RW1, RW2, SRW) and other graphic files (EPS, WEBP)
  • Word comments for DOCX and DOC files are indexed and displayed in the preview
  • Check whether main Window is off-screen and reset position to default
  • Show full path as tooltip for too long paths
  • Improved scrolling behavior on touch devices
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed various bugs

New in Panofind 1.0.9.0 (Sep 18, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Added support for OpenDocument file formats (odt, ott, ods, ots, odp, otp - but only if LibreOffice is installed)
  • Added question mark “?” operator in advanced search
  • Added an option for deactivating the “Last Searches” window completely, individual entries can be deleted from the list
  • Added buttons for opening the folder of each result in the Windows Explorer and the files with their default application
  • Added the possibility to add your email address and additional information on error reporting
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed from the list of reported exceptions the top entries or those will now provide more information to the user
  • Fixed some indexing problems
  • Fixed several smaller bugs and issues

New in Panofind 1.0.8.0 (Jul 28, 2023)

  • Features:
  • The search box will show the last search terms as autocomplete
  • Added a setting for adding additional text format extensions (e.g. you can easily add “cpp” files to be indexed as text)
  • Added proximity search in advanced search mode (terms need to be at maximum n words apart), for more information check the help for the advanced search
  • Added similarity search. On any document press the button in the document navigation bar in order to find documents similar to the displayed document
  • Added a setting that prevents indexing when computer runs on battery
  • Added Hebrew language (RTL)
  • Error reporting now also sends basic OS details & amount of RAM
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed a small bug in the settings where some modifications are not remembered when switching tabs in settings
  • Modified the indexing behaviour so that only necessary files are parsed, fixed several problems on indexing
  • Fixed some other smaller bugs & exceptions

New in Panofind 1.0.7.0 (Apr 18, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Implemented better preview of PDF and Word files
  • Added better support for Right-to-Left languages
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed a hang of the file indexer when parsing RARs with a specific compression scheme
  • Added the possibility to install a missing requisite (if necessary) as part of the installation

New in Panofind 1.0.6.0 (Mar 14, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Added support for eBooks (epub, azw3, azw, mobi, prc)
  • Added support for HTML pages (html, htm, xhtml)
  • Modified default reindex schedule to 14 days
  • Modified zoom factors to smaller steps
  • Added auto-detection for RTL languages in the Text viewer
  • Bugs:
  • Fixed that the file size was reported sometimes zero for ZIP file contents
  • Fixed a problem on opening non-accessible drives
  • Fixed the problem on copying selected text to clipboard
  • Fixed a problem of not marking search results in CSV files
  • Fixed other minor issues

New in Panofind 1.0.5.0 (Jan 30, 2023)

  • Bugs:
  • Fixed problem that under certain conditions, an error message occurred after the search
  • Resized several UI elements to fit better to the content, mainly in the settings dialog
  • Gixed other minor issues
  • Features:
  • Added French language
  • Added option for indexing only when computer is idle

New in Panofind 1.0.4.0 (Jan 14, 2023)

  • Bugs:
  • On some computers there has been a problem on starting up version 1.0.3, this should be fixed now
  • Features:
  • Added possibility to send diagnostic information in case that Panofind crashes

New in Panofind 1.0.3.0 (Jan 11, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Added filters for limiting the search results to specific file types, date ranges, folders or size
  • Added German language
  • Added possibility for automatically checking for updates

New in Panofind 1.0.2.0 (Nov 5, 2022)

  • Fixed problem of not accepting custom specified text file extensions.