Full-text search programs are essential in translation work if you need to consult references (glossaries, etc.). Here are some that we use. (Note: Prices have been rounded up to whole dollars.)

 

Program Features Comments

Archivarius 3000

Business: $45 Personal: $30 Student: $20

 

 Archivarius 3000 is the system which understands natural language queries (English, German, Spanish, French for example). Documents can be searched by keyword or using query language, the same like in Internet search engines. While searching, the program automatically generates all forms of words, which provide full-text documents search in 18 languages. Support for popular formats, document search from MS Office and PDF to TXT. It took 10:31 minutes to index 283.12 MB (2835 documents, on a 2.60 GHz computer. Extracting files (i.e., extracting text so that you don't have to have the files available, took a little longer: 17.07 min. to index/extract 832 files from a CD (size of files: 457.77 MB; size of index: 98.79 MB). It finds and displays hits fast. I have purchased a license and I am using it daily. I've been asked many times to recommend a moderately priced full-text search program, with a lot of functionality and ease of use. Archivarius 3000 fits the bill perfectly. See a review here. JJ

dtSearch

$200

 The dtSearch product line can instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet site. I have used it for many, many years. It's used in the language services of the United Nations. I have yet to run a comparison with Archivarius 3000, but dtSearch takes longer to display hits. JJ

Examine32

$35

 Fast and versatile text search utility for MS Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 that can: search any type of file; text files and Microsoft Word, rich text format (RTF), WordPerfect, PDF (Acrobat files), HTML (web pages), XML, StarOffice and OpenOffice files are specifically supported; use either ordinary text or GREP-like regular expressions; the logical operators OR, AND, NOT and XOR can be used with a specified search proximity; search files within ZIP archives; return a list of findings with file details, the selection highlighted in context, and line number; save your search data to disk and retrieve it at a later date. Data by default is saved in .examl (xml) file format. It doesn't index. It's very fast if you restrict your searches to specific folders or files. JJ

InfoRapid Search & Replace

Freeware

 InfoRapid Search & Replace is one of the most powerful text retrieval programs currently available for Microsoft Windows. With its built-in converters, it's excellently suitable for searching and previewing HTML and RTF documents. In pure text files, the found text passages can be replaced after the search is over. The search and replace process can be automated with the help of batch files to replace several phrases in one step. The found documents can be opened in a preview window, in which the matches are highlighted. A special feature is that InfoRapid can use Microsoft Office converters to search WinWord, Excel, Lotus and other documents and preview them in their original layout. "InfoRapid Search & Replace: Windows' paltry Find feature is a 98-pound weakling compared to InfoRapid's Search & Replace. Like Find, InfoRapid lets me search for text in practically any file. But InfoRapid has more search options than Arnold Schwarzenegger has muscles. For instance, I can use AND, NOT, OR, and NEAR Boolean operators and do phonetic searches. I can actually view the files (listen up, Microsoft) with built-in viewers for text, HTML, RTF, and common image files such as BMP, JPEG, and GIF. I can view almost all other files, including databases and spreadsheets. Search results are highlighted, and a click on any other word starts a new search." Source: A PCWorld review by Steve Bass (March 21, 2001).

 

 

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