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Agent Ransack vs DocFetcher: catalog facts
Agent Ransack	DocFetcher
Freemium Agent Ransack is free. FileLocator Pro, with indexing and scripting, is paid.	Free The open-source application is available without a license fee.
Windows	Windows, macOS, Linux
No index to build, so a search on a new folder starts instantly Regular expression and boolean queries with matched lines shown inline	Searches inside archives as well as documents Portable mode carries the index alongside the files
Unindexed searching is slow across very large volumes Office content search, indexing and scripting are FileLocator Pro features	Java application with a dated interface Indexing large collections is slow and the index takes real disk space
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: EPL-1.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 22, 2026

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