dtSearch Desktop is a powerful and robust information retrieval tool, it enables you to search through terabytes of text in under a second because it builds an index that stores the location of the words in your files.
Unlike most other search tools, searching is not ‘blind’ – the word-wheel shows all the words in your documents, simply double-click on a word to enter it into the search query textbox.
NOTE: Image above is dtSearch Desktop 2022.02, note Stemming Language selector includes 30 languages at no extra charge. See dtSearch Desktop beta Release Notes.
dtSearch Desktop can search all Microsoft Office formats and the latest PDF 2.0 format, as well as many legacy file formats, and never alters or moves your original files. See here for the full list Article: DTS0103
Index drives (including removable media), folders, files, Outlook folders or use the built-in Spider to index Web sites
Advanced indexing options to give you complete control over the content of each index (emails; credit-cards; date-range, XML fields)
It will automatically collect metadata from HTML, Word and PDF documents as well as from media files such as MP3, ASF and WMV to allow field searching.
Indexes can be automatically updated by using the Windows Task Scheduler to reflect additions, deletions and modifications to your document collection.
Each index holds over 1TB of data, create multiple indexes for focused search results.
Index attachments to multiple levels
Search
dtSearch has over 25 indexed and un-indexed text search options, uniquely dtSearch Desktop can perform un-indexed as well as “combination” searches to search files that have not been indexed.
Boolean; Natural language; Phrase; Directed Proximity (Pre/n) ; Proximity (w/n); Phonic; Fuzzy ; Wildcards in any position (* ? =); stemming; user defined thesaurus; WordNet thesaurus; Regular expressions.
e-Forensics investigative features such as search using a wordlist (including with Boolean operators),
Add-on products for dtSearch Desktop
These products extend dtSearch Desktop/Network capabilities even further:
365 Indexer
365 Indexer provides indexing of Microsoft 365 – SharePoint Online and OneNote online. An essential add-on for secure hybrid working. Avoid the need for remote workers to make local copies of files on their desktop to make them searchable by dtSearch Desktop; with this add-on they can index and search files stored exclusively online.
Database Indexer
Database Indexer provides indexing of SQL/mySQL databases, local or in the cloud (Azure/AWS).
User Thesaurus Plus
User Thesaurus Plus provides the ability to choose from multiple User synonym files, for specific purposes. See the free T207 training article for examples of searching using three (genealogy, cross-lingual, political) of over 30 sample synonym and macro files that are included.
Stemming Language Selector
IMPORTANT: From 1st April 2022 the SLS500 Stemming Language Selector is no longer available. Following a license agreement between dtSearch UK and dtSearch Corp, dtSearch Desktop from version 2022.02 will include all the stemming language files as standard at no extra charge. See dtSearch Desktop beta Release Notes.
NOTE: dtSearch Desktop and dtSearch Network are identical software, only the licensing differs, both products can search over a network. dtSearch Network has a 5-user minimum license and all users share the same serial number. See the End User License Agreement (EULA) for details.
Alternative products
These alternative products are for ‘low cost per user’ search on large networks.
dtSearch Web
dtSearch Web provides a browser based simple search experience over any network using Microsoft IIS on the server. Ideal for museums, websites, local government, courts, etc. for public or staff search of reports, brochures, data sheets, etc.
dtSearch Publish can compliment dtSearch Web for distributing the same content via DVD or USB drives, useful for e-Bibles etc. or where network access maybe limited or insecure e.g. maritime, airborne, remote locations, military.
Universal Search System
Universal Search System provides modern desktop clients (Windows or macOS or Linux) with multi-lingual user interface with advanced search options (e.g. word-wheel, multi-lingual stemming, EDiscovery features, dark mode), PDF hit-highlighting without a plugin, portable mode, etc.
Universal Desktop Search
Contact us to take part in beta testing or to be kept updated on this new product line.
All purchases include one year of technical support, before ordering please read the End User License (EULA)
30-day trial
D66 dtSearch Desktop single-user. License covers use on two machines (e.g. a laptop and desktop PC) by the same individual.
Note: the setup program will ask for a serial number, check the box to install the “evaluation version” and click the Next button.
Free training
Automatic deployment on a network (external link)
dtSearch Desktop/Network “getting started” video (YouTube)
D66 dtSearch Desktop with spider. License covers use on two machines (e.g. a laptop and desktop PC) by the same individual. $249 ($199 before 1st March)
D66A dtSearch Desktop “investigative” license is an annual license for a single individual for forensics, etc. $1,225 ($999 before March 1)
D66N dtSearch Network is for multiple-users (5 min) and license includes an extra free copy for use on a server. Quantity discounts:
Multicurrency checkout.
| Price per user | Before 1st March | |
|---|---|---|
| 5-24 | $200 | $160 |
| 25-99 | $175 | $140 |
| 100-199 | $150 | $120 |
| 200-499 | $125 | $100 |
| 500-999 | $100 | $80 |
| 1000-1999 | $85 | $70 |
Upgrade
Additional years of support from dtSearch UK can be ordered below, you can also upgrade from older versions at these discount prices. BONUS: customers on extended support receive priority support as well discounts and other special offers from time to time. See Terms & Conditions
D66UG Upgrade/extended support Desktop/Network
(Minimum order $150)
2-4 $75 each (single-user 2 years min.)
5-24 $60 each
25-69 $50 each
D66NUG Upgrade/extended support dtSearch Network (70+ user site) $3500