Windows 10 / 11 · 64-bit

Download, double-click, done

There is no installer. No administrator rights. Nothing is written to the registry.

The build is still being published

You can build it from source in the meantime — two commands if you have Rust.

Free. No payment, no account, no ads.

First run

Three steps and you are searching.

Put the file anywhere Your Downloads folder is fine. There is no install location to choose.
Double-click it A console window appears briefly, then your browser opens 127.0.0.1:8787.
Start searching Documents, Downloads and Desktop are picked up automatically. Add more with --root "D:\Data".

Written here rather than left as a surprise after you download.

The executable is not code-signed yet, so Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”. Choose More info → Run anyway.
Antivirus software may flag it briefly. To list files quickly, CHATDA reads the disk's index region (the MFT) directly, and that behaviour resembles some malware. Code signing and false-positive submissions are on the list before general release.
If that bothers you, build it from source. All the code is public and it uses no third-party libraries at all.

Everything works, but revisions land often. Tell us what breaks at [email protected].
Text extraction for Hangul Word Processor 3.0 (the 1995 format) follows the published specification but has not yet been verified against a real file.

Platform	Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
Install	None — a single executable
Privileges	No administrator rights required
Size	about 1.9 MB
Network	Never used · interface binds to `127.0.0.1` only
Default mode	Read-only (`--allow-write` enables file changes)
Uninstall	Delete the executable and `%LOCALAPPDATA%\chatda`
Licence	Free for personal use · Terms

There are no third-party libraries, so nothing is fetched.

git clone https://github.com/work517/chatda
cd chatda
cargo build --release -p chatda-mcp

The result is target\release\chatda-mcp.exe. If Rust is missing, scripts\SETUP_TOOLCHAIN.ps1 in the repository installs it for you.