DrawingSearcher

DrawingSearcher is typically purchased to search across ALL of your company's/organization's AutoCAD drawing files AND all other technical data saved in all of the popular "office" documents, including Microsoft Office (.DOC, .XLS, .PPT) and Adobe PDF, as well as all of the file formats listed below.

Features Supported:

• SEARCH any alpha or numeric text anywhere in any AutoCAD drawing
• SEARCH any alpha or numeric text anywhere in any Filename
• SEARCH by Extracted Title Block Data
• Indexing of DWG, DWF, or DXF files
• SmartZoom(R) to view "found" text strings
• Built-in high-performance web server
• Automatic DWF file generation
• Automatic PNG preview image generation
• User-customizable HTML interface
• Directory Browse with Preview Image Display
• Indexing of Microstation DGN files
• Indexing of Microsoft Office files (e.g. .DOC, .XLS, .PPT)
• Indexing of Adobe PDF documents

DrawingSearcher can search ALL of these document formats:

• Adobe Acrobat (*.pdf)
• Adobe Framemaker MIF (*.mif)
• Ami Pro (*.sam)
• Ansi Text (*.txt)
• ASCII Text
• ASF media files (metadata only) (*.asf)
• Autodesk's AutoCAD files (.dwg, .dwf, .dxf, Vault (non-proprietarty/intermediate files), etc.)
• CALS files
• CSV (Comma-separated values) (*.csv)
• DBF (*.dbf)
• Databases (file-based databases) (see SQL, below, too)
• EBCDIC
• EML files (emails saved by Outlook Express) (*.eml)
• Enhanced Metafile Format (*.emf)
• Eudora MBX message files (*.mbx)
• Flash (*.swf)
• GZIP (*.gz)
• HTML (.htm,.html)
• JPEG (*.jpg)
• Lotus 1-2-3 (.123,.wk?)
• MBOX email archives (including Thunderbird) (*.mbx)
• MHT archives (HTML archives saved by Internet Explorer) (*.mht)
• MIME messages
• MSG files (emails saved by Outlook) (*.msg)
• Microsoft Access MDB files (We no longer use ODBC or any Microsoft database drivers to index Microsoft Access files. Earlier versions relied on ODBC to parse Access files. Each record of a database is indexed as a separate document.) (.mdb,.accdb, including Access 2007 and Access 2010)
• Microsoft Document Imaging (*.mdi)
• Microsoft Excel (_.xls &_xlsx)
• Microsoft Excel 2003 XML (*.xml)
• Microsoft Excel 2007 and 2010 (*.xlsx)
• Microsoft Outlook data files (*.PST)
• Microsoft Outlook/Exchange Messages, Notes, Contacts, Appointments, and Tasks (We can index Outlook and Exchange message stores using MAPI. We can also index Outlook PST files directly, without using Outlook or MAPI.)
• Microsoft Outlook Express 5 and 6 (*.dbx) message stores
• Microsoft PowerPoint (*.ppt)
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and 2010 (*.pptx)
• Microsoft Rich Text Format (*.rtf)
• Microsoft Searchable Tiff (*.tiff)
• Microsoft SQL (MS SQL)
• Microsoft Word for DOS (*.doc)
• Microsoft Word for Windows (*.doc)
• Microsoft Word 2003 XML (*.xml)
• Microsoft Word 2007 2010 and 2012 (*.docx)
• Microsoft Works (*.wks)
• Microstation files (*.dgn)
• MP3 (metadata only) (*.mp3)
• Multimate Advantage II (*.dox)
• Multimate version 4 (*.doc)
• OpenOffice versions 1, 2, and 3 documents, spreadsheets, and presentations (.sxc,.sxd, .sxi,.sxw, .sxg,.stc, .sti,.stw, .stm,.odt, .ott,.odg, .otg,.odp, .otp,.ods, .ots,.odf) (includes OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications)
• Oracle SQL
• PNG (*.png)
• Quattro Pro (.wb1,.wb2, .wb3,.qpw)
• QuickTime (.mov,.m4a, *.m4v)
• SQL (e.g. Microsoft SQL, Oracle, etc.)
• TAR (*.tar)
• TIFF (*.tif)
• TNEF (winmail.dat files)
• Treepad HJT files (*.hjt)
• Unicode (UCS16, Mac or Windows byte order, or UTF-8)
• Visio XML files (*.vdx)
• Windows Metafile Format (*.wmf)
• WMA media files (metadata only) (*.wma)
• WMV video files (metadata only) (*.wmv)
• WordPerfect 4.2 (.wpd,.wpf)
• WordPerfect (5.0 and later) (.wpd,.wpf)
• WordStar version 1, 2, 3 (*.ws)
• WordStar versions 4, 5, 6 (*.ws)
• WordStar 2000
• Write (*.wri)
• XBase (including FoxPro, dBase, and other XBase-compatible formats) (*.dbf)
• XML (*.xml)
• XML Paper Specification (*.xps)
• XSL
• XyWrite
• ZIP (*.zip)