OfficeBrief
A desktop file manager with built-in document tools.
Dual-pane file browser with full-text content search, on-device OCR for scanned images, document conversion via LibreOffice, mass rename with regex, ZIP/Unzip, and smart-card ID scanning — all running locally on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Available on
- Windows10 / 11 / Server
- macOS12 Monterey+
- LinuxDebian / RPM / AppImage
What it does.
A proper desktop file browser, designed for daily work.
Side-by-side dual-pane layout, drive listing, breadcrumb navigation, fast copy/move/delete, multi-select with batch operations. Built for people who move a lot of files and want it to feel solid — keyboard-first, predictable, no surprises. The kind of tool you stop noticing because it doesn't get in your way.
- Side-by-side dual-pane layout
- Drive discovery on Win / Mac / Linux
- Keyboard-first navigation with vim-style shortcuts available
- Batch operations with progress and cancel
Search inside documents, not just filenames.
Plain-text substring search across the body of your documents — Word, PDF, Office, plain text. Returns results with surrounding context so you can spot the right hit without opening each file. Skips binary archives and media to stay fast. The kind of utility that pays for itself the first time you actually find what you were looking for.
- Case-insensitive substring matching across document bodies
- Surrounding-context snippets for every hit
- Skips binary archives, video and audio by default
- Async with live progress and cancel anytime
Turn scanned images into selectable text.
Local OCR powered by Tesseract.js. Drop a scanned PNG, JPG, TIFF or BMP and get extractable text back in seconds. No cloud upload, no external OCR API, no usage fees, no awkward conversation with your data-protection officer. Useful for invoices, contracts, paper documentation and archive scans.
- Tesseract.js engine — entirely local
- Formats: PNG, JPG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, WEBP
- Copy extracted text or save as plain text
- Multi-language OCR supported
- Per-page confidence scores so you know what to spot-check
Preview and convert Office formats without leaving the app.
Inline preview of DOCX (via Mammoth), PDF (via pdf-parse) and most Office formats. Convert between PDF, HTML, DOCX and TXT through a bundled LibreOffice integration. Means you can open, review and reformat without a Word installation — useful for IT teams trying to reduce Office licence spend or run Linux desktops.
- DOCX, DOC, PDF, XLSX, XLS, PPTX, ODP, ODS, ODT preview
- Convert between PDF, HTML, DOCX, TXT via LibreOffice
- Mammoth + pdf-parse + officeparser under the hood
- Works on Windows, macOS, Linux
- Batch convert entire folders in one job
Everything else it does.
ZIP / Unzip on the fly
Create archives from selections or extract them in place. archiver + unzipper handle .zip natively without external tools.
Mass rename with regex
Rename batches of files with prefix, suffix or full regex find-replace. Preview every change before committing, undo within the session.
Smart-card ID scanning
Read smart-card data via PC/SC 2.0 (pcsclite). Optional hardware integration that gracefully no-ops when no reader is attached — useful for government and regulated workplaces.
Dark mode + preferences
Full dark theme, configurable defaults for paths, search behaviour and OCR. Preferences persist per machine.
Local license tiers
PRO and ENTERPRISE tiers gate advanced features (batch operations, OCR throughput, smart-card support). Machine-bound activation.
Image-aware previews
Thumbnails for image-heavy folders, inline preview for common formats, fast lazy loading even on large directories.
Questions we hear often.
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