What is Qsirch?
Qsirch is a fast, full-text search engine that enables you to find files based on filename, content, and metadata. You can choose from a variety of search options to quickly find documents, images, videos, emails, and other NAS-based files. Qsirch’s search functions are also available using a companion mobile app, browser extension, and Mac® Finder. Qsirch is useful for both homes and businesses, allowing home users to quickly find movies, songs or photos and helping business users increase their productivity by cutting down the time spent hunting for files.
How Qsirch works?
Qsirch automatically indexes all NAS-based files, allowing users to quickly find the files they need. Qsirch and QTS share the same privilege settings, so users can only find the files which they are authorized to. Administrators can remove shared folders from being indexed to protect sensitive data, and can also exclude backup folders from being indexed to avoid unnecessary system resource usage.
Note:Qsirch uses NAS CPU/ RAM resources when indexing files. Upon finishing, Qsirch will release the system resources. The indexing process will take longer when enabling Qsirch for the first time or when a lot of NAS files are added/removed.
Overview
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Multiple Search Interfaces
Use the QTS app, companion mobile app, browser extension (Chrome™, Firefox®) and Mac® Finder.
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Search While You Type
Simply choose categories, enter keywords, and the related files will be immediately displayed.
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Advanced Filters and Tags
Use “Include” and “Exclude” to streamline search results. Selected search conditions are shown as tags, allowing users to make quick adjustments by removing the tags.
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Comprehensive Search
Find files by filename, metadata (title, author, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and more), and over 30 search conditions.
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Preview and Share
Quickly preview files and share them instantly via email, social media, share link, or with another NAS user.
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Integration with other NAS apps
Qsirch works alongside other NAS apps – such as QmailAgent (.eml file format) to easily search through your emails.
Multiple methods for finding files
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Explore your NAS
Get an overview of the files stored on the NAS and use tags to enhance your search experience.
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Integration with Mac Finder
Supports full text search.
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Smart Recommendations
Files you may also be interested in (determined by keywords and conditions) are displayed in the search preview page.
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Choose Shared Folders to be Searched
Administrators can add/remove specific shared folders for Qsirch. Confidential data can be excluded from indexing to improve data security.
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Search based on Permission Settings
Qsirch works in line with user accounts and shared folder permissions. It effectively protects data privacy and search results only return authorized files for each user.
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Auto-archive Files
Use Qfiling directly in Qsirch to perform one-time or automatic archive tasks based on your search criteria.
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API for Custom Search Applications
The Qsirch API allows for third-party applications and system integration. Visit the following link for the API documentation: http://ip:port/qsirch/static/api-docs/v1/index.html
Image Search. Find Files Faster
By Photo Color
Qsirch indexes your photos based on their color content. You can quickly find the photos you need by selecting a color filter.
By Object
Qsirch works with the QuMagie Core AI engine to identify objects in photos, allowing you to find photos using keywords.
By Map
Find photos taken from a specific geographic area.
By People
Using QuMagie Core AI-powered image recognition, Qsirch allows you to find photos based on the people in them. Simply click on someone’s face in a photo to find other photos that include the same person.
Text search in images
OCR technology recognizes text content in images and enables you to search using keywords.
License Plan
Lite
Free
- 3 filters available per file type.
- "Include" and "Exclude" filters.
- Full-text search on documents.
- Advanced image search: color, object, map, OCR text search in images.
Premium
Subscribe Now
- All filters available.
- "Include" and "Exclude" filters.
- Full-text search on documents.
- Advanced image search: color, object, map, OCR text search in images, search by people.
- Archive search results with Qfiling
Get Qsirch now
You can download Qsirch from the App Center for use in QTS 4.4.2 (or later) and QuTS hero operation system. Qsirch is supported by every x86-based and ARM-based NAS (excluding the TAS series) with at least 2GB RAM (4GB is recommended for optimum performance).
Qsirch on the go!
The Qsirch companion mobile app supports iOS® 9 (or later) and Android™ 5 (or later). To take full advantage of Qsirch, it is recommended that users update their QNAP NAS to QTS 4.4.2 (or later) and install Qsirch from the QTS App Center.
Recommended Models
 Home/SOHO |  SMB |  Enterprise | |
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Model Name | TS-453D | TVS-872N | TS-1685 |
CPU | Intel® Celeron® 4-core | Intel® Core™ i3 4-core | Intel® Xeon® 4/6-core |
Memory | 4GB/8GB | 8GB | Up to 128GB |
Bay | 4 Bay | 8 Bay | 16 Bay |
Hard Drives | 2.5"/3.5" SATA 6Gb/s HDD/SSD | 2.5"/3.5" SATA 6Gb/s HDD/SSD | Twelve 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s drive bays and four 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s drive bays |
M.2 SSD Slots* | Expandable via QM2 | 2 x M.2 2280 PCIe Gen3 x2 | 6 x M.2 SATA |
* M.2 SSD are not included as standard.