Note that this script is currently not maintained, it may fail to work with current versions of PyQt/PyKDE.

DesktopDig is a search engine that is optimized for your personal files. It has a graphical user interface for KDE but it can also be used on the command line or as a CGI script. It has been tested under Linux, let me know if the command line version works on Windows, too (the GUI isn't supposed to work on Windows).

Download: DesktopDig 0.1 (.tar.gz, 36KB)

Installation: Install the required software listed below, then download and unpack DesktopDig. Start desktopdig.py for the graphical user interface or use index.py and search.py on the command line.

Requirements:

• Python 2.2 (older versions might work)
• eGenix.com mx BASE Extensions 2.1.0b5 (src RPM, .tar.gz, )
  If you get the message that the mx.BeeBase.BeeDict package cannot be found after you have installed the RPM, you should try to build the source RPM with rpm --rebuild egenix-mx-bse-2.1.0b5-py2.2_1.src.rpm and install the generated RPM.
  If you cannot install the eGenix.com extension as root you can install it like this:
  ./setup.py install --prefix=/home/username/egenix
  Then add /home/username/egenix/lib/python2.2/site-packages/ to the path in Config.py.
• If you want to use the graphical user interface:
  • PyQt
  • PyKDE
  • KDE 3.0
  I suggest to download the RPMs for PyQt, SIP (required by PyQt) and PyKDE from Sourceforge.

License: DesktopDig is freely available under the GPL.

Screenshots

Features in comparison to Perlfect Search:

	DesktopDig 0.1	Perlfect Search 3.30
Online Demo	KDE Documentation	Perlfect Search mailing list archive
Incremental indexing	Yes	No, complete re-indexing necessary
Index files via http	No	Yes
Unicode support	Yes (all encodings supported by Python, e.g. UTF-8)	No
Phrase search support	Yes	Not by default (patch necessary)
+/- syntax for keyword forcing/exclusion	No	Yes
Support for several independant indexes	Yes	No
Supported file types	HTML TXT PDF (requires pdftotext) MS-Word (requires Antiword) KWord >=1.2 StarOffice >= 6.0, OpenOffice.org	HTML TXT PDF (requires pdftotext)

The following values were measured on a Athlon 900 with 256MB RAM, with 460 HTML files whose average file size was 8 kb. The search was a one-word query which resulted in 18 matches. This is only an example, other document collections will give different results: