eSearch Pro is a full-text search (FTS) application for information retrieval. It is intended for professionals who need to quickly find information from large quantities of data in a wide range of sources, in any language. Typical uses include, but are not limited to, searching case law, legal precedents, academic literature, project documents, translation, investigative journalism, source code, knowledge-management & 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 your query words highlighted – all in the same window. Web format images are displayed in the viewer. If photo images contain geolocation data, simply press a Map Pin button on the taskbar to display the location on a map.

Quickly insert Boolean operators with ‘All’ or ‘Any’ word defaults. Search using a ‘list of words’ for eDiscovery/eDisclosure. Search expansion options include multilingual stemming and the 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. Metadata is displayed in a separate window. It offer fast navigation between highlighted hits and has a built in PDF viewer.

Modern user interface in YOUR language

Uniquely, eSearch Pro allows you to immediately switch the UI language. English, French, and German are provided, and you can also translate the user interface into YOUR language using 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 that 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, such as 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.