Open Source Java Search Software for Mac

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.

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.

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

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.

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

SCAN (Smart Content Aggregation and Navigation) is a universal semantic content aggregator. It combines search, text analysis, tagging and metadata functions to provide new user experience of desktop navigation and document management.

A simple document management system (DMS). Documents and associated datas are stored in a single file. Keep all your documents in your pocket on your USB stick.

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.

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.

BeanQuery is a Java solution that allows for querying arbitrary collections of arbitrary object types by using a criteria like API in a declarative and typesafe manner.

This project aims to create an OS X and Windows XP desktop application that will extract relevant information from your computer as you perform everyday tasks such as reading emails or chatting on instant messenger clients.

Dessy is a DEsktop Search and SYnchronization framework for mobile devices. It allows file search using content, metadata, and custom tags, and synchronization of results, and entire file system subtrees. It works on MIDP 2.0 handsets and Java 2 SE.

Didaskon will deliver a framework for assembling a curriculum from existing learning objects provided by e-Learning services. The selection of learning objects will be based on the semantically annotated specification of the user's current skills.

The application should take a directory and parse it recursively or not, and execute a given executor. The executors shuold be pluggable and rendered on the application's ui according to some strict rules.

Java application using tree map algorithms to visualise disc space usage. Lets find forgotten large "space-eaters" files in an easy way.

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.

Duplicate Checker searches your folders for identical files. It comes with an easy to use graphical user interface, and an effective command line mode.

The goal of DynaQ is to develop an inquiry system to explore the personal information space, supporting you with the searching paradigm 'orienteering'. DynaQ is a (desktop)search engine with enhanced functionality for file, email and blog search. Look at our GitLab homepage for sourcecode and documentation: http://dynaq.opendfki.de

Filter files in Eclipse Navigator panel using patterns and regular expressions. Apply filters to specific folders, packages, or projects! Install this plug-in now from within Eclipse using update site http://eclipseresfltr.sourceforge.net/update

Search plugin for Eclipse that makes it possible to search for files outside the workspace.

Looks at file names in a directory and finds common parts in them trying to search similar and repeated ones. Useful when you have multiple files which differ in checksum and somehow in names. You can collect them and make a decision afterwards.

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