Panofind allows you to find texts in documents like PDF, Word, Excel, etc. It is easy to use and free for private, educational and commercial purposes. Search results can be previewed in their native layout.

Hello everyone, I am the author of Exact Audio Copy and other applications and would like to introduce you to my new project Panofind. It would be great if you would try it out and let me know what you like and what could be improved.

@celebrandt Congratulations on the launch! I do not download products, unless I am really in need of them..any chance you launch an online version of the tool ?

@aris_nakos Thanks! An online version would be something completely different, because in this case all files to be indexed need to be somewhere online (cloud storage, etc.). For searching in the various clouds, the cloud providers usually already offers indexed search in the documents. Additionally, in order to provide such a tool online, I would need to provide servers which downloads and indexes all documents. Besides the costs for the server could gets too high quite soon, the data privacy would be a big issue. It need to be made sure that those can not be seen/downloaded from anybody but the owner. Providing a solution for the desktop is therefore much easier, and the only doable solution for an individual developer offering this solution for free. It is meant for the files on your computer, therefore there will also be no data privacy issues.

@celebrandt I thought about your intents, while typing my question, and I appreciate your thoughtful response. There are some generous tiers with say MongoDB and Vercel you could try. With regards to privacy, that's definitely an obstacle, which needs more thought.

@celebrandt Congratulations on the launch! I do not download products, unless I am really in need of them..any chance you launch an online version of the tool ?

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The ultimate tool for easy and efficient searching

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