Open Source Java Search Software

DocFetcher is an Open Source desktop search application: It allows you to search the contents of files on your computer. — You can think of it as Google for your local files. The application runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine that lets you store, search and analyze with ease at scale. It lets you perform and combine many types of searches; it scales seamlessly, and offers answers incredibly fast with search results you can rank based on a variety of factors. Elasticsearch can be used for a wide variety of use cases, from maps and metrics to site search and workplace search, and with all data types.

Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.

KISS (Keep It Simple and Stupid) is a blazingly fast yet incredibly small launcher for Android that requires nearly no memory to run. It expedites searching through the apps, contacts and settings of your Android device, giving you just one simple interface to find everything you need fast. No need to skim through dozens of other apps just to find one-- simply enter a few characters and hit enter. Need to make a call? Just enter the first three letters of the contact's name and hit the phone button. No more time and effort is wasted on searching, and you won't have to look at long lists of contacts or a grid of application icons doing absolutely nothing. KISS is smart and gets smarter as you keep using it, remembering your most commonly accessed search results.

Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.

The Apache Lucene™ project develops open-source search software. The project releases a core search library, named Lucene™ core, as well as PyLucene, a Python binding for Lucene. Lucene Core is a Java library providing powerful indexing and search features, as well as spellchecking, hit highlighting and advanced analysis/tokenization capabilities. The PyLucene sub-project provides Python bindings for Lucene Core. The Apache Software Foundation provides support for the Apache community of open-source software projects. The Apache projects are defined by collaborative consensus-based processes, an open, pragmatic software license and a desire to create high-quality software that leads the way in its field. Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache PyLucene, Apache Open Relevance Project and their respective logos are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation.

Empty Directories Finder expires empty directories and allows you to conveniently select the required directories before deleting. New version available. Improved user interface.

A universal suite of utilities for large corpora processing.

Puggle is a graphical desktop search engine written exclusively in Java. It provides full text and metadata search over files, folders, music, photos, web pages and more that are stored locally on your computer.

An advanced Java file/class finder with support for searching inside zip|war|ear|jar archives or finding text inside pdf|doc|ppt|UTF-8 files.

QuickFind is a cross platform Java Application for searching files in your Computer. The sole purpose of this application is to save user time by searching the desired file almost instantly. User has all the freedom to schedule or cache manually any time on selected directories. Once the caching is done all you have to do is input the name of the file you want to find.

Aperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems (file systems, web sites, mail boxes, ...) and the file formats (documents, images, ...) occurring in these systems.

CRGREP searches for matching text in databases, various document formats, archives and other difficult to access resources. A command line tool for name and content text matching in database tables, plain files, MS Office documents, PDF, archives, MP3 audio, image meta-data, scanned documents, maven dependencies and web resources. CRGREP will search resources within resources of any arbitrary combination or depth, so text within a document within a zip archive, and so on. Here you will find binary downloads and discussion (https://sourceforge.net/p/crgrep/discussion/) . The actual development and issue tracking can be found here: https://bitbucket.org/cryanfuse/crgrep

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

Enable your academic documents on your hard-drive to be searched using an automated solution with limited user-intervention. All this is done in a non-intrusive manner, ensuring your files are not moved.

You are looking for a installed font? Then you're right! JFontTools offer you a full system to search, analyse and compare fonts! Present fonts to other by generating HTML previews and print a example page. Manage your installed fonts and deinstall unne

JIndex is a Java version of Beagle. It's a program that enables you to search meta data from files quick and painless.

Mustru is a desktop Q&A search engine based on Lucene. You can search local filesystems using natural language questions or boolean queries. A list of answers or hits will be returned. A web based interface is included.

Phuzby is a small lightweight cross-platform phone book query tool for Windows and Linux which sits in the task tray and allows quick and easy access to LDAP enabled directories.

Torrent Search Engine: TorrentSearch is a framework and script language for searching Bit Torrent websites and search engines for torrents.

JavaTB is a Java ToolBox that goes beyond what operating systems provide for file management, networking, system monitoring and many more functions.

Now you don't need to rack your brains with making a regexp to extract necessary rows from log files. Just run that tool and you'll get the right Regular Expression. Image how to extract rows with the time amoung your log?

MARKOS developed a prototype of a service and an interactive application providing an integrated view on the Open Source projects available the on web, focusing on functional, structural and licenses aspects of software code.

Visual pattern matching with regular expression search tool

Indexing your USB's files in full text mode. Store this powerfull indexer directly on your USB key or USB HDD, chose a USB folder and indexing it to perform powerful searchs on your USB key.