#UTILITY TO SEARCH FOR TEXT IN FILES PDF#

#UTILITY TO SEARCH FOR TEXT IN FILES PDF#

I only recommend this program if you have some serious search needs that include finding text in Word files, PDF documents, Excel spreadsheets, etc. ItвЂ™s a whopping $159! ItвЂ™s pretty much got all the features mentioned above, plus some more, and all packaged nicely into a pretty little interface. This program has some serious features and a serious price tag to go along with it. If you are looking for the ultimate search program, then look for further than PowerGREP. The pro version costs $25 and seems to just disable the splash screen, otherwise the features are the same. The free version has a splash screen that you canвЂ™t disable. ItвЂ™s pretty fast overall and shows you matches in a tabular format. BareGrepД«areGrep is a fairly simple search program that supports regular expressions and all the basic search functions. I also find their interface to be more modern and pleasing to the eye. You can also save or print out all of the results for future reference.

grepWin also has that option if you choose the Content radio button, but I think itвЂ™s implemented better in AstroGrep.ДЄstroGrep can also search Word files, which is a handy feature. Not only does it get updated quite often, it also shows you where in the file the text was found. AstroGrepДЄstroGrep is also another really good search program. The results are listed in the bottom window and you can just double-click on them to open the files. It also adds an option to the right-click context menu in Explorer to quickly search a folder. You can limit the search by file size, file type and other criteria. They also have a tutorial on their website to help with regular expressions, though you can Google for many more. It supports regular expressions and allows you to find and replace text also. GrepWin is probably the most popular out of the tools mentioned here.

Utility to search for text in files