Version History

Version 1.1.1 from 02.08.2024

Features

  • In the main window use reduced icon sizes and move them closer together

Bugs

  • Hopefully removed or circumvented crash after application start

Version 1.1.0 from 30.03.2024

Features

  • Added an additional application for detecting text in image-only PDFs (OCR)
  • PDFs which have images (but no detected text) will be proposed during indexing for detecting text
  • Added support for RAW photo files (ARW, CR2, HEIC, NEF, RW1, RW2, SRW) and other graphic files (EPS, WEBP)
  • Word comments for DOCX and DOC files are indexed and displayed in the preview
  • Check whether main Window is off-screen and reset position to default
  • Show full path as tooltip for too long paths
  • Improved scrolling behavior on touch devices

Bugs

  • Fixed various bugs

Version 1.0.9 from 18.09.2023

Features

  • Added support for OpenDocument file formats (odt, ott, ods, ots, odp, otp - but only if LibreOffice is installed)
  • Added question mark “?” operator in advanced search
  • Added an option for deactivating the “Last Searches” window completely, individual entries can be deleted from the list
  • Added buttons for opening the folder of each result in the Windows Explorer and the files with their default application
  • Added the possibility to add your email address and additional information on error reporting

Bugs

  • Fixed from the list of reported exceptions the top entries or those will now provide more information to the user
  • Fixed some indexing problems
  • Fixed several smaller bugs and issues

Version 1.0.8 from 28.07.2023

Features

  • The search box will show the last search terms as autocomplete
  • Added a setting for adding additional text format extensions (e.g. you can easily add “cpp” files to be indexed as text)
  • Added proximity search in advanced search mode (terms need to be at maximum n words apart), for more information check the help for the advanced search
  • Added similarity search. On any document press the button in the document navigation bar in order to find documents similar to the displayed document
  • Added a setting that prevents indexing when computer runs on battery
  • Added Hebrew language (RTL)
  • Error reporting now also sends basic OS details & amount of RAM

Bugs

  • Fixed a small bug in the settings where some modifications are not remembered when switching tabs in settings
  • Modified the indexing behaviour so that only necessary files are parsed, fixed several problems on indexing
  • Fixed some other smaller bugs & exceptions

Version 1.0.7 from 16.04.2023

Features

  • Implemented better preview of PDF and Word files
  • Added better support for Right-to-Left languages

Bugs

  • Fixed a hang of the file indexer when parsing RARs with a specific compression scheme
  • Added the possibility to install a missing requisite (if necessary) as part of the installation

Version 1.0.6 from 13.03.2023

Features

  • Added support for eBooks (epub, azw3, azw, mobi, prc)
  • Added support for HTML pages (html, htm, xhtml)
  • Modified default reindex schedule to 14 days
  • Modified zoom factors to smaller steps
  • Added auto-detection for RTL languages in the Text viewer

Bugs

  • Fixed that the file size was reported sometimes zero for ZIP file contents
  • Fixed a problem on opening non-accessible drives
  • Fixed the problem on copying selected text to clipboard
  • Fixed a problem of not marking search results in CSV files
  • Fixed other minor issues

Version 1.0.5 from 29.01.2023

Bugs

  • Fixed problem that under certain conditions, an error message occurred after the search
  • Resized several UI elements to fit better to the content, mainly in the settings dialog
  • Fixed other minor issues

Features

  • Added French language
  • Added option for indexing only when computer is idle

Version 1.0.4 from 13.01.2023

Bugs

  • On some computers there has been a problem on starting up version 1.0.3, this should be fixed now

Features

  • Added possibility to send diagnostic information in case that Panofind crashes

Version 1.0.3 from 11.01.2023

Features

  • Added filters for limiting the search results to specific file types, date ranges, folders or size
  • Added German language
  • Added possibility for automatically checking for updates

Version 1.0.2 from 27.09.2022

Features

  • Added setting for setting re-index intervals
  • Added setting whether live reindex of modified files should be performed
  • Added possibility for stopping and starting the indexer service from the UI
  • Also providing statistics of indexed files on that page

Version 1.0.1 from 10.09.2022

Bugs

  • Removed log output of a component, because of excessive logging
  • Fixed problem of not accepting custom specified text file extensions
  • Fixed several UI issues