Any Windows offline note taker apps that allows to import MS Office (msg, docx, xlsx) and pdf files and search within them?

Posted by Anthony
Oct 28, 2015 at 01:52 PM

If you are interested in finding files with your search, rather than showing results, let me mention another good piece of software:

mybase 7 (http://www.wjjsoft.com)
In its previous versions it was Win only. Now it runs also on Mac and Linux. Before v7, it was very stable and very good in dealing with rtf files. Now it went to major changes, with a better interface, and some deep changes (no longer rtf native). Yet in the current built it seems stable too, and very well coded (it is fast, contrary to other outliners)

For your needs: if you have already installed ifilter PDF (from Adobe or Foxit), -or if you install it with mybase - it captures the contents of the pdf (besides .doc, .txt, .mht, etc) files that are attached or simply linked to its outliner. The fact that captures also the linked files, seems quite interesting. No text results though. For them you need Foxit reader or Xchange viewer. With ifilter installed They show text results of all your pdfs in the HDD or in a specific folder.