There's just so much out there that it's hard to just "google it" but does anyone have any experience with really good doc management software? It would be nice if it could manage office files (.xls, doc, .pst) and pdfs but if not at least pdfs.

1/18/2012 5:56:29 PM

For personal use?

1/18/2012 6:29:14 PM

a document created in Acrobat (or inDesign, Illustrator, Word, etc and converted to PDF) should already be searchable for words in the document with a standard Windows search

but if the PDF is scanned in without OCR I don't think its really possible to search those PDF files

regards to just the Office files, a standard Windows search should show find everything with a particular search string

1/18/2012 6:30:05 PM

i need to be able to search using the metadata of the files as well, windows search does seem more powerful than i remember though!

unless i'm just not seeing the option to do so...

[Edited on January 18, 2012 at 6:58 PM. Reason : oh nvm, i see its just a plain search field and it even goes through the metadata...]

1/18/2012 6:51:20 PM

google desktop does what you're looking for

1/18/2012 7:45:08 PM

well its a good thing that will never get discontin...damn

1/18/2012 9:09:48 PM

1/18/2012 9:24:24 PM

I've always been intrigued by the commercials for this product:
http://www.neat.com/products/neatdesk

not sure if it can import docs or if it's even useful for that purpose.

1/18/2012 9:35:40 PM

I'm not sure if you're trying to use this for personal use or business but if it's for personal, Evernote can do this. It can search text in images too.

1/18/2012 10:14:18 PM

This has been a gap in business software forever.

1/18/2012 11:01:15 PM

can't use the neat products because i have a 64 bit OS and they require 32 bit

1/18/2012 11:03:46 PM

so far windows 8 search is winning by a long shot

1/18/2012 11:04:14 PM

Windows search should do it.

And you can install any 32bit app on Win7 64bit. It may take a little coaxing from the installer, but it will run.

1/18/2012 11:59:02 PM

nerd it up and whip out that bash shell, mang. find + grep will locate almost anything lickety split.

1/19/2012 12:06:37 AM