Calibre lags on Windows 10 Home

[DrChiper]

I could not let it rest, so I googled somewhat and seemed to have found at least one interesting files and file contents indexer: docfetcher

Its open source, has an active development, java based and even a portable version is available. Best of all: it knows EPUB's. First impressions are not bad, reasonable fast, and it can find strings in epubs.

Perhaps worth to try.

Now, if only the file contents indexer could be incorporated in calibre (plug-in?), the match would be perfect

One likes to dream

[BetterRed]

@DrChiper - I tried DocFetcher in 2012, my notes indicate it was quite slow, crashed a lot (not unusual for Jave apps), and there were a number of circumstances where index rebuilding was necessary. At the time it didn't support ePUB and its support for DOCX was a bit off-piste. I also had the impression it was geared towards building the indexes dynamically rather than building them progressively.

I don't know if DocFetcher's results list can be read by the Drop Search Results plugin. For me that would be a must have. I'm not really interested in a solution that only searches within one or more calibre libraries.

Kovid has full text search in his sights, IIRC he's intends using Lucene to do the heavy lifting - which is what DocFetcher apparently uses.

A search for 'docfetcher' in the MR calibre forum should find a few threads

BR

[DrChiper]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

@DrChiper - I tried DocFetcher in 2012, my notes indicate it was quite slow, crashed a lot (not unusual for Jave apps), and there were a number of circumstances where index rebuilding was necessary.

Speed is always an issue, but for my current usage it is speedy enough, so they have improved in the last 6 years. No crashes up-to-date, but I provided the app with its own java environment as I use the portable version.

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Kovid has full text search in his sights, IIRC he's intends using Lucene to do the heavy lifting - which is what DocFetcher apparently uses.

Sounds good. I cannot wait

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DrChiper

Speed is always an issue, but for my current usage it is speedy enough, so they have improved in the last 6 years. No crashes up-to-date, but I provided the app with its own java environment as I use the portable version.

Sounds good, must admit I'd sort of forgotten DocFetcher even existed.

I'm interested in knowing if it can be used with the calibre Drop Search Results (DSR) plugin. It's handy to have an extra arrow in the quiver - especially of its free.

DSR is a very simple but a most effective plugin.

BR

[DrChiper]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I'm interested in knowing if it can be used with the calibre Drop Search Results (DSR) plugin. It's handy to have an extra arrow in the quiver - especially of its free.

I think the useability of DSR depends on your search intention/procedure.

In my case, when I'm knowledge searching in books (and other files containing text for that matter, even files outside calibre) which might contain some specific text phrase, I now use docfetcher, and have no need to fire-up calibre as I can see a rough text representation in docfetcher and when needed I can read the material by a double click in the docfetcher found files section.

When I need to technically search inside books within calibre for any ebook markup phrase or normal text, I fire-up calibre and use the Quality Check plug-in which has a great search facility for this: you can define the file types to use. Any search results are marked automagically in calibre. It takes only some search processing time but it works well enough.

IMHO the ideal situation would be to incorporate the strong function parts of QC and docfetcher within calibre and you have a winner.