XP file search engine with preview
pane
If
you search by keywords, you may find similar words with different
meanings (track, trail, home and so on...). But it takes really much
time, to open files one-by-one to find if that is really what you
need. FSA
allows to view the file as soon as it is found, not caring whether it
is html, doc, txt and even pdf file.
Introduction
When you
collect a large amount of files on your computer while work, sometimes
it’s hard to find something necessary. If you search by keywords not
by filename, you may find similar words with different meanings
(track, trail, home and so on...).
To
find out if that is really what you need demands opening each file in
a specific editor (doc – Word, pdf – Acrobat Reader, html –
Internet Explorer and so on...). It takes really much time, for each
program needs few seconds to be loaded. Also it makes you tired and
leads your job to be non-productive.
This problem
would be solved if some
universal preview utility, allowing to view several file types,
existed.
Universal
preview
FSA allows to
view the file as soon as it is found, not caring whether it is html,
doc, txt and even pdf file.
FSA
outlines the
searching text with the Bold font and centers the
document on the found phrase, so you can at time compare the
document with what you really need. It’s especially
comfortable when you need to check a large number of files
of different types.

Search
keyword: "found text", preview pane (*)
* Please note: this screen shots belongs to
an older version of FSA, it is still available for download
from this web-site. The newer version have some changes, for
instance, it doesn't allow to replace text as this function
was not quite stable.
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Moreover, when
you have previewed the document, you may copy some abstract directly
from the viewer and paste it anywhere you need.
If there are
several abstracts found in the whole document, FSA allows you to move
between some files and one file’s fragment using special buttons.
It’s quite easy and comfortable – “Next file” (moves to the
next file), “Next fragment” (moves to the next found abstract) and
just the same to the reverse direction – “Previous fragment” and
“Previous file”.
A
separate button, “Generate report”, makes the FSA to
generate html file where all found files and their
properties (path, size, hits) and the text abstract are
listed. It’s quite useful when you should communicate to
your colleagues, doing similar job, and with the help of
such reports you may share your work results.

Navigation
buttons, File Search Assistant
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Advanced users
may tune the FSA in such a way that if file is opened with a special
editor, the document would be opened on the demanded place where the
text is found.
Get File Search Assistant
You can get File Search Assistant right now. It's a file search
tool that allows to search for popular file types on local hard disk
and across a network.
We also recommend to check AKS Text Replacer, this software is
great at text replacing. As well as File Search Assistant, AKS
Text Replacer will show preview before replace and highlight
necessary text.
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