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Re:Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop by rasz on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:48AM (#33817831)
Everything (https://www.voidtools.com) can also index file contents
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Re:Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop by jackhab on Thursday December 01, 2022 @11:02AM (#33818066)
Everything indexes everything EXCEPT contents, unfortunately.

https://www.voidtools.com/faq/#does_everything_search_file_c...

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Re:Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop by capableweb on Thursday December 01, 2022 @12:40PM (#33819637)
Also, "Everything" is only available for Windows and is closed source, you can't add support for document types you care about.
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Re:Recoll – Full-text search for your desktop by gala8y on Friday December 02, 2022 @10:37AM (#33831892)
There is FSearch for GNU/Linux: https://github.com/cboxdoerfer/fsearch
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