Findit 6 Reviews & Product Details

Professional file search without indexing. Trusted by German lawyers & journalists since 1995. New to G2 - be among the first international reviewers! Findit 6 is a professional desktop search application for Windows that enables users to find any file by its content in seconds — without requiring index creation, while delivering a level of performance that makes index-free full-text search practical for everyday use. Unlike traditional enterprise search tools such as dtSearch, FileLocator Pro, or DocFetcher that require building and maintaining large indexes before searching, Findit delivers immediate results through direct file analysis. It can search through 50 GB of data in approximately 20 seconds without any preparation time, making it ideal for ad-hoc searches and dynamic data environments where files change frequently. The software supports over 200 file formats out-of-the-box, including Microsoft Office documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX), PDFs, emails (EML, MSG) with attachments, and compressed archives (ZIP, RAR, 7z) - even when nested multiple levels deep. Built-in OCR functionality enables searching within scanned PDFs and images without requiring external tools or pre-processing steps. Findit's fault-tolerant text extraction can recover content from damaged or non-standard files that parser-based systems typically fail on. The software searches email attachments automatically and penetrates archive files recursively, finding content that remains invisible to many competitors. It also supports exotic formats like executable files and system libraries. The target audience includes journalists managing legacy archives, lawyers handling mixed client data, IT professionals working with heterogeneous datasets, researchers dealing with international documents, and any professional who needs complete, reliable search results rather than just fast ones. Beyond interactive search, Findit also supports fully automated, repeatable search workflows. Searches can be defined using any combination of file properties, timestamps, metadata, and content, saved, and executed unattended. Result sets can be exported with timestamps or processed automatically in the background, including copying, moving, or packaging matched files into ZIP archives. This makes Findit suitable not only for archival research, but also for IT operations, compliance checks, scheduled audits, and lightweight forensic or maintenance tasks where deterministic, script-free file selection and processing is required. Index-free full-text search — finally practical for everyday use At this level of performance, index-free full-text search becomes similarly fast and spontaneous to use as index-based systems — without preparation time, index maintenance, or structural limitations. Searches can be started immediately, refined, and repeated, even on large and constantly changing data sets. Findit combines the flexibility of index-free search with the everyday usability of traditional search solutions. It is not limited to finding “lost” files. Content-based search often becomes faster and more practical than manually navigating to a known location — even in well-structured archives. Findit is available as a one-time purchase ($39-59) with lifetime validity and no subscription requirements, offering significant cost savings compared to enterprise solutions priced at $150-200+ or requiring annual subscriptions. Free updates included with every license purchase. English interfacace als well as German interface plus three additional languages supported.