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StopKa is the program intended for search and manages files on the local hard drive of the computer and network. StopKa is a mix of Desktop Search application and Filename Search application and File manager application in one. Two panel interface, which is familiar to any File manager program user and possibility to manage all files in one place, display thumbnails for pictures and video in Windows 7 Explorer style. StopKa can scan the content of selected folders (LAN is also suported) and index all text information, which the program able to extract. Currently StopKa support the following formats: txt (all plain text format extensions [example: cpp, h]), html, doc, rtf, xls, ppt, pdf, djvu internally and all other formats via pluggable IFilter interface mechanism. Here is description what is IFilter, which formats they support (practically any useful format supported), and possible to download and install IFilter's onto your system. Preview panel is suitable to view filtered content of files (example: html - binary with tags or just text). Multilanguage interface is supported - 2 build in languages English and Russian, these are possibility to contribute any other language.

Outstanding features: high indexing speed (look at review), momentary search, ranging the search result accordingly user demands (any file attribute is supported), flexible indexing options, mix of direct and index search, plain folder(s) view, file manager, simple graphical user interface, embeddable classification possibilities, own buildin search engine.