It has special handling for PDF files, allowing you either to view the PDF file in place (in dtSearch) or in a separate instance of Adobe Reader (and in both cases, hits are highlighted). You can control whether or not the external viewer is launched on a case-by-case basis, that is, you can have different actions for each and every file type. When you create or update an index, here's the dialog (note the special button just for Outlook):ĭtSearch has built-in viewers for most common file types ( PDF, of course - see below), but can also launch an external program automatically when the hit is on a file type for which it doesn't have a viewer. It can index any file type that has text, and it has special handing for Outlook files. I am simply a happy user/customer.ĭtSearch has two main components: an Index Manager that builds indexes and a Search engine that searches those indexes - very quickly! Here's the main Index Manager dialog:ĭtSearch has a large number of indexing options, which you can get a sense of from the Preferences dialog:

and no financial interest in it whatsoever. It is an extraordinarily good piece of software! In the rest of this article, I'll refer to it as just dtSearch, for simplicity, except where I mention editions other than Desktop with Spider.ĭisclaimer: Before going any further, I want to emphasize that I have no affiliation with dtSearch Corp. I have been using a product called dtSearch Desktop with Spider for more than 20 years:

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