What is Strigi

Strigi is a daemon which uses a very fast and efficient crawler that can index data on your harddrive. Indexing operations are performed without hammering your system, this makes Strigi the fastest and smallest desktop searching program.
Strigi can index different file formats, including the contents of the archive files. You can see a detailed list of the supported file formats in this section.
Strigi can be run from different OS and window manager. It has been written focusing on portability and extendability.
If you want to discover Strigi capabilities, just read the features section.