What the press says about FindWord

Swiss commercial newspaper "Cash" No. 41, 10.07.04

»Anyone wishing to peruse his Windows disk for an indistinctive term ([e.g. the german surnames] Maier, Meier or Meyer) is most likely to find help with FindWord. Not only does it support wild cards (M??er) but it also has a clever extension with its category search. It can, for example, list all your Mails in which swiss city names occur, or can find all documents which contain web addresses. Furthermore, FindWord can handle flections, and the search for "Baum" [tree] also finds "Bäume" [trees].«

Computer magazine c't, No. 14, 06.28.04

• »All the terms in your textual data are displayed and selectable in the lists of the word and category searches, as soon as you type the beginning of a word into the key field.«
• »If the user chooses the operator AND, then the list is updated to show only those terms which appear together with the previously entered term, thus allowing a concerted research.«
• »The partially very powerful category search allows the choice of various topics, for example all cities in Germany, Austria or Switzerland. Further available topics are currency, nations, Email, http, number or refence.«
• »The category search is a real plus - one opens a topic and sees what one's own documents contain on that topic.«
• »FindWord comes out on top with its category search, which - unique amongst the test candidates - can list for example all Email addresses or german towns. If someone is looking for something but does'nt know exactly what, then FindWord delivers the solution.«

Computer magazine c't No. 22, 10.21.02

• »A further strength of the program is the display technique. After clicking on the category "Technical" an alphabetically sorted list of all the technical terms used in the indexed documents of this category appears in the lower window. A click on one of these terms, for example "offset printing", selects in turn those documents containing this term, which allows a fast and direct search using only the mouse, even when the term to be sought is not exactly known.«
• »FindWord ... is convincing due especially to the extra indexing of references, dates and web addresses. A further advantage is the display technology: only the terms actually used in the documents appear in the preview window, which is inviting for searches with the mouse rather than a command language.«

Computer magazine c't No. 20, 09.25.00

• »Practical in both cases is that the user immediately sees if the word he is looking for occurs at all in any of his documents. During input a separate window lists all files found, thus enabling immediate access.«
• »The possibilities to search for references, dates, and Internet- or Email-addresses are particularly sophisticated. For this purpose the developers have included special parsers, which recognise all possible formats and sort them into the appropriate categories: 09.31.00 and September 31, 2000 both equate to the same value. This speciality can be of particular value to law firms and tax advisors. A further striking feature of the program is its knowledge of the old and new [german] spelling rules.«

The legal magazine NJW-CoR awards 4 out of 5 possible points in issue No. 6, 09.19.00:

• »The handling is simple and clear. ... All in all a very useful package offering good value for money.«

Computer magazine CHIP No. 03 / 2000

»Using it is childs play: For a new project just enter the drive and directories to be searched and start the index run. The program sorts all the words, numbers, dates and even reference numbers it finds in two different ways: on the one hand alphabetically, on the other hand into categories such as computer, politics, sport and so on.«