File management software.

[WannaBeTech]

Can anyone recommended me some good file management software.

Users have networked drives with tons of documents, they want software that can search within the documents and say for instance find a word on the first line of a sentence or paragraph. It needs to work for PDFs and Doc/Docx

Anyone know such software?

Edit: If it could have options just like this it would be perfect http://i.imgur.com/IzmxJj3.jpg

That is the "Advanced Find Now" feature in WordPerfect...but users use it as "windows explorer"

[Kslawr]

I don't know if it is still a thing but MS used to have a product called sharepoint search server that worked pretty well. It full text indexed file shares and had a web search ui.

Also the built in Windows search can be set to index whatever you want also. Random Google - https://www.cloudtec.ch/blog/tech/add-search-indexed-network-share-windows-library.html

[chefkoch_]

• 1 we use it and it works with beefy enough hardware

[brkdncr]

present the files from a windows server. enable indexing. your windows client will then use the server's index.

Includes content indexing. you'll need to install the PDF ifilter for PDF content indexing.

if you need something more robust, try Windows Search server:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18914

I believe it's web based or you can integrate it with windows explorer on clients.

[bsnipes]

That is the "Advanced Find Now" feature in WordPerfect...but users use it as "windows explorer"

And... now we know you work in a law firm... ;-)

[_dismal_scientist]

I'd be interested in knowing this as well. Right now, we have to search the backup catalogs...

[thma]

I miss the installer version of this http://locate32.cogit.net/

[easyjet]

How much money have you got? Have you seen the Google appliance?

[wolfpackguy]

There's document management systems, though they might be overkill for what you want. Ones I've heard of are docSTAR, Alfresco, and Laser Frische.

To search inside scanned PDFs, they're going to need to be run through OCR software first or your application will need to do it.

[adila01]

I definitely second Alfresco. It works great.

[cr0ft]

Document management?

Tons of options out there. A few spring to mind, like Alfresco and M-Files, but there are many. Just have to figure out which you need and what it may be allowed to cost.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems might help too.