Offline Volume Cataloger

• OVC is maintained as an open source project at SourceForge.  To learn about open source and why its a good thing, visit OSI.
• OVC is implemented in Python with only standard and operating system independent packages.  In this way, I intend to maintain the project as an OS-independent application which will work "out of the box" on any platform for which Python and applicable packages are available (that includes Linux, Windows, Mac, and many others).
• OVC is much faster than other similar software that I've used, both for cataloging and for searching.
• OVC's catalog datafile format is a standard format (currently Python "shelve" format, XML is planned), so you'll never be left high-and-dry with a database that can't be used.  In fact, OVC catalog datafiles could be used within your own application.
• OVC's find functionality supports powerful searching for files or directories using regular expressions.
• All of OVC's code can be imported and its functions can be called as a library ("package") from your own code.  Use it and abuse it... it won't mind!
• The task of cataloging is something so basic and utilitarian that I feel there should be various free options available to users.  I use it very often to locate files on backup and offload CDs

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