eSearch is a full-text search (FTS) application for information retreival. Intended for professionals that need to quickly find information from large quantities, and in a wide range of data sources, in any language. Typical uses, but not limited to, searching of case law, legal precedents, academic literature, project documents, translation, investigative journalism, and research in many domains.

Features

Searching is not ‘blind’ the main window features a fully scrollable word list of all the words in your files, click on a word to enter it in the search query, see a scrollable list of results and view the selected result with word hits highlighted, all in the same window. Web format images are displayed in the viewer, if photo images contain geolocation data, just press a Map Pin button on the taskbar to display its location on a map.

Quick insertion of Boolean operators with All or Any word defaults. Search using a ‘list of words’ for eDiscovery/eDisclosure. Search expansion options include multilingual stemming and ability to use multiple pre-defined and a user-defined thesaurus file simultaneously. You can export results as time-stamped XML, CSV or TSV file, or copy document text, append notes, and save to a timestamped file.

Extensive file format support

eSearch includes the open-source Apache TIKA content analysis toolkit to extract text and metadata. Meta-data is displayed in a separate window. Fast navigation between highlighted hits. Built in PDF viewer.

Modern user interface in YOUR language

With eSearch not only can you immediately switch from English, French and German, you can translate the user interface into YOUR language. Download the free Language File Editor! (French, German 100% translated, many other sample language files available.)

eSearch is a self-contained 64-bit .NET 6.0 application, you can install on any Windows 10 or 11 machine without worrying about the installed .NET runtime; there is no need to download any other files, like Java or C++ runtimes.

Cross-Platform
This product uses the open-source Lucene .NET search engine. Versions will be available for Linux and macOS as well as Microsoft Windows 10 or 11 64bit, including ‘portable’ use.

See the User Guide for more information.

Note: This product is in beta test phase.