EOV Context Searcher v1.0.0

EOV Context Searcher finds files by what is written inside them, not only by their names: in Word and Excel documents, PDFs, letters, plain text and even in files inside archives. Every match comes with the piece of the sentence where your words were found and the place in the document. A folder is scanned once; after that the search runs on the index and takes a fraction of a second.

Searches inside documents

Text is read from Word, Excel and PowerPoint - both current (docx, xlsx, pptx) and old 97-2003 files (doc, xls, ppt) - from OpenDocument (odt, ods, odp), PDF, RTF, eml and Outlook msg letters, fb2 and epub books and dozens of text formats: txt, csv, log, json, xml, html, scripts. Everything else - pictures, video, drawings - is found by name.

And inside archives

Files in zip, 7z and rar are read just like files on disk, archives inside archives too, up to five levels deep. In the results such a file looks like Archive.zip › old.7z › Report.docx. RAR is read when WinRAR or 7-Zip is installed.

Context and the exact place

For every file found you see pieces of text with the words highlighted, and where they are: the PDF page, the sheet and row of a spreadsheet, the slide, the line of a text file. The preview on the right shows the whole text; step through the matches with the arrows or F3. Open the file in its own program, or its folder in Explorer.

Queries the way you think them

Words are found with any ending: "agreement" also finds "agreements", and the same works for Russian. Quotes search the text exactly as typed, a comma splits the query into parts that must all be in the file, a minus leaves files out: contract, equipment -lease. Filters narrow it down by type, date, size and extension.

Scanned once

The program reads a folder once and keeps its text in an index. Then it notices what has changed - at start and whenever you come back to the window - and an update reads only new and changed files. Scans run in the background, can be paused or cancelled, and several folders wait in a queue.

Library and History

The Library holds every scanned folder with its dates, groups and notes. A folder on a disconnected drive or a USB stick stays searchable: its index lives elsewhere. If a folder has moved or the drive letter has changed, attach it to the new place without scanning again. History keeps every search together with what it found, so a search from last week opens again with the same files.

What it does not do

It writes nothing into your folders, changes nothing there and never goes online. It does not recognise scans without a text layer or pictures - those are found by name. Password-protected documents and archives are not opened. Words shorter than three letters are searched in file names only. Of very large texts the beginning is read, and the program says so above the file's preview.

At a glance

• System: Windows 10 / 11, 64-bit
• Installation: none, unzip and run
• Languages: English and Russian, illustrated manual in both (F1)
• Download size: 41 MB
• License: free, all rights reserved by the author