A robust and feature-rich tool for searching text patterns across multiple file types. This advanced search utility goes beyond simple grep-like functionality by supporting PDFs, Microsoft Office documents, images (OCR), archives, and more.

• Multi-Format Support: Search across plain text, PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, images (with OCR), and archives
• High Performance: Multi-threaded searching for faster results
• Beautiful UI: Rich terminal interface with progress bars and colorful output
• Advanced Filtering: Regular expressions, case sensitivity, and whole-word matching
• Smart Detection: Automatically detects available search capabilities based on installed libraries
• Detailed Results: Clear presentation of search matches with context

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/yourusername/advanced-file-search.git
cd advanced-file-search

# Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install additional format support as needed
pip install PyPDF2 pdfplumber  # PDF support
pip install python-docx        # Word document support
pip install openpyxl xlrd      # Excel spreadsheet support
pip install easyocr Pillow     # OCR for images
pip install chardet            # Advanced encoding detection

python search.py "search term"                  # Search in current directory
python search.py "function main" /path/to/code  # Search in specific directory

python search.py "TODO" --include "*.py"       # Search only Python files
python search.py "error" --exclude "*.log"      # Exclude log files
python search.py --regex "function.*main" .     # Regular expression search
python search.py "bug" --no-case-sensitive     # Case-insensitive search
python search.py "test" --max-workers 8        # Use 8 threads

python search.py --capabilities                # Show available search capabilities
python search.py --extensions                  # Show all supported file extensions
python search.py --lib-purposes                # Show purposes of all used libraries

advanced-file-search/
├── search.py             # Main script
├── pyproject.toml        # Project configuration
├── requirements.txt      # Dependencies
├── LICENSE               # MIT License
├── README.md             # This file
├── test_search.py        # Test suite
└── docs/                 # Documentation
    ├── CHANGELOG.md      # Version history
    └── CONTRIBUTING.md   # Contribution guidelines

# Run all tests
pytest

# Run specific test file
pytest test_search.py

# Run with verbose output
pytest -v test_search.py

• Text Files: .py, .js, .html, .css, .md, .json, .xml, .yml, .txt, etc.
• PDF Documents: .pdf
• Word Documents: .docx, .doc, .rtf
• Spreadsheets: .xlsx, .xls, .xlsm, .xlsb, .ods
• Images (with OCR): .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .tiff, etc.
• Archives: .zip, .tar, .gz, .bz2, .7z, etc.

• Use --include patterns to limit search to specific file types
• Use --exclude patterns to skip irrelevant files
• Adjust --max-workers based on your CPU cores and file count
• Consider file size limits (files over 100MB are skipped by default)

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the project
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request