Desktop search software alternative

[kiddingguy]

I currently have Copernic Desktop Search installed, but this software is running and indexing constantly (for no reason), has a high CPU usage (30-50%) and therefore is running my computer very hot and my fans are blowing like crazy.

 

Is there a (better) alternative for this software, which indexes my PDF-files (also incl. OCR), Outlook-files (maybe even Thunderbird), Office documents, like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and the regular indexing of other files on multiple disks/partitions.

 

It's OK to have a paid version, but a good ad-free freeware alternative is also fine.

[kiddingguy]

No suggestions whatsoever?

[MS Bob 11]

Why not Windows Search with iFilters?

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,

 

Here are a few options:

 

• Agent Ransack - https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/
• Archivarius - http://www.likasoft.com/document-search/
• Copernic - https://www.copernic.com/ (which you are already using)
• dtSearch - https://dtsearch.com/
• DocFetcher - http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
• Everything - https://www.voidtools.com/
• FileSearchEx - http://goffconcepts.com/products/filesearchex/index.html
• Lookeen - https://lookeen.com/
• UltraSearch - https://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch/
• X1- https://www.x1.com/

 

Perhaps one of them will meet your needs.

 

Regards,

 

Aryeh Goretsky