Hi, I have an idea to add another product to LibreOffice suite. We are talking about a tool for searching the contents of office files. Search engine tool for content formats (doc, odt, rtf, pdf, txt, htm) using the LibreOffice engine (without preliminary indexing of files!). Such a tool will be useful on different OSes. There are currently no such products (at least in Linux)
Seems kind of non-performant, would require threaded parsing of document content from the various zip archive and binary files. Also, this feature would require integration with os/DE file manager and native implementation per os/DE. Seems a return to efforts of the 'Use LibreOffice Dialogs' internal file manager.
I think such tool need not be a core tool, but could be provided as extension or as separate tool. Perhaps contact Mechtilde Stehmann. She provides Loook, which is similar to such tool. https://mechtilde.de/Loook/index.html
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #2) > I think such tool need not be a core tool, but could be provided as > extension or as separate tool. Perhaps contact Mechtilde Stehmann. She > provides Loook, which is similar to such tool. > https://mechtilde.de/Loook/index.html Loook for odt only. No pdf, no rtf, no htm...
"Solutions" thus far, including the LO bundled native "Windows Explorer Extension" or the LOOOK extension, only parse ODF and OOXML source documents for full-text string contents. This RFE for "non-indexed" search within the LO UI is much broader filter request and seems out of scope to project--even as an Extension
pdfgrep does its job pretty well, and apparently there are also tools for ODF. And ultimately it's up to the OS/DE to search files for content. => WF
"Everything" is a program on Windows which has an extremely in-depth "search within all filetypes" functionality: - https://www.voidtools.com/ I use that to mass search HTML, TXT, RTF, DOCX, ODT, ... all in one shot. And, best of all, it's WAY faster than the default Windows Explorer search.