FIND-IT, the ultimate file, is finding a machine with a 'preference' for complex full-text retrieval! Any search for files on your disc(s), whether by name, size, date, or any other criteria, will be performed fast, comfortably, and reliably.
Find-it will find any file on your disc or the entire network with any criteria you give. Above all: it scans files for their content. You can search for multiple phrases in any desired combination using logical operators (and/or not). Find-it will find contents in almost any file format, even when packed within a ZIP, CAB, mail attachments, and PDF. Find-it only has to pass on complete text retrieval inside bitmaps (i.e., scanned documents) or emails stored in client databases.
You find files by their content, at lightning speed, without prior indexing! The tool will crawl through your directories or drives at high speed. If you have some hundred GB of data and look for any file created within the last month containing a unique combination of phrases, they will be found within less than a Minute. If you can apply further astrictions (i.e., type of file), the scan may be finished within seconds. Even if you have to scan all files without any astriction like date or type, even on a mediocre computer, Find-it will process one gigabyte of data per Minute.
Lists of found files are presented as virtual folders, similar to Windows Explorer. Found files may be copied, moved, run, viewed, zipped, and handled any way you want. Lists of found files can be stored for further use, and queries can be stored and repeated any time you want. Lists of found files may be searched for other criteria and exported to HTML or plain text... there is merely nothing you can't do.
The integrated viewer shows all files and content that highlights the words you were looking for. You may copy and paste citations or even collect several citations from different found files within a new document.
If desired, Find-it will run automatically in the background. The program can be 'remote-controlled' by other applications using a scripting language; predefined queries can be started repeatedly (if desired: hidden), creating lists of found files or even automatically copying or moving them.
Sophisticated help will present you with intelligent tooltips for any user interface element. This will help you to use the elaborate functions right from the start.
In addition, Find-it can produce a 'pen drive installation' to be executed from any pen drive on almost any Computer.
Find-it was first developed in 1993 for Windows 3.0 and has been developed further since then. It was initially programmed for use by a group of german TV journalists because no software was available to do the job. Find-it has been distributed as shareware in the German language since 1994. The program has many users in Germany and other German-speaking countries, including governmental institutions, big companies, and universities (Look at the References on the left).
