“If it is to be, it’s up to me!” Windows search is even with Locate32 or Everything, look this article, not the best. Finding content in compressed files is impossible because these tools cannot decompress it first. So I make my mind about starting a project when time’s not as short as these days. The project may implement compression algorithms in Locate32 so I can find content in PDF, MHT, CAB, ODT, ZIP and GZIP files. The compression method used is Deflate. Text string within PNGs and TIFFs are even found – but quiet often this is useless because the lack of OCR techniques.
MHT is a web archive implemented in Opera by default and in Mozilla Firefox as additional plugin, called “UnMHT“. ODT is the default text document standard for OpenOffice files and CAB, ZIP and GZIP are containers for files and folders compressed with loss less quality.
This project is required to be written in C++ according to use the existing sources. Whether the result is free, open source or being merged into Locate32 is being decided when done. Interested programmers are welcome to apply for this project. I would like to work with eager programmers from all over the world. On top of that I would like to hear what value this means for the so called average windows user. Even if there are other interesting features missing, what surely will be, send me an eMail describing the problem and I will have a look at this and make a study off that.
Thanks for your interest and feedback.