--- title: "OfficeBrief — File Manager with OCR" description: "A file manager that searches the words inside your documents, reads scanned pages, converts formats and renames hundreds of files at once. Fully offline." url: "https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/" source: "https://royalsoftworks.com" format: "markdown" note: "Markdown rendering of the HTML page at `url`. Same content, same canonical URL." --- Desktop file manager · document tools # One window for everything you do with files. Browse two folders side by side. Search the text inside your documents. Turn a scan into text, convert between formats, rename a hundred files at once, print from a template. All on your own computer, with nothing sent anywhere. [Join the waitlist](https://royalsoftworks.com/contact/?product=office-brief&tier=notify) [See it work](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/how-it-works/#search) OfficeBrief search inside… ~/Work/Legal LEFT · ~/Work/Legal Contracts— Vendor\_terms.docx 48 KB Q3\_audit.xlsx 112 KB scan\_invoice.tiff 2.1 MB archive\_2025.zip 340 MB Contract\_Acme\_v3.pdf 96 KB Q3\_audit.xlsx RIGHT · ~/Clients Clients— 2026— NDA\_template.docx 31 KB minutes.pdf 58 KB 6 items · 1 selected● offline · no network The workbench ## Two panes. Drag from one side to the other. A proper side-by-side file browser. See where things are going and where they came from at the same time, copy or move between the two, and run jobs on a whole batch at once. It is keyboard-first and predictable: the kind of tool you stop noticing because it never gets in your way. - Side-by-side panes for copy and move - Keyboard-first, with shortcuts for everything - Batch operations with progress and cancel - Works the same on Windows and Linux For your IT team - **Runtime** — Electron 34 desktop app; Angular 20, TailwindCSS 4 - **Drives** — Drive discovery on Windows / Linux - **Operations** — Async batch copy / move / delete with progress and cancel OfficeBrief search inside… ~/Work/Legal LEFT · ~/Work/Legal Contracts— Vendor\_terms.docx 48 KB Q3\_audit.xlsx 112 KB scan\_invoice.tiff 2.1 MB archive\_2025.zip 340 MB Contract\_Acme\_v3.pdf 96 KB Q3\_audit.xlsx RIGHT · ~/Clients Clients— 2026— NDA\_template.docx 31 KB minutes.pdf 58 KB 6 items · 1 selected● offline · no network Explore OfficeBrief ## Everything it does, in detail. Built-in tools, who actually uses each one, and the technical reference for IT and procurement. - [Overview, continued When it is out, and on what OfficeBrief is written up, not shipped: there is nothing to download yet. What is planned, and how to hear when it is out.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/availability/) - [Features Every built-in tool OCR, format conversion, mass rename, template printing, ZIP, smart-card scan.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/features/) - [Use cases By department Legal, healthcare, government, finance and records teams — how each one uses it daily.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/use-cases/) - [How it works The workbench, end to end Dual-pane browsing, content search internals, and a typical job from scan to print.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/how-it-works/) - [Security Offline by architecture It never sends a document out, keeps AI optional and local, and reports nothing back — and what that means for HIPAA and GDPR.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/security/) - [Whitepaper Technical reference Architecture, OCR pipeline, template engine, smart-card boundary, compliance posture.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/whitepaper/) - [FAQ Common questions Formats, OCR languages, smart-card behaviour, licensing tiers — answered plainly.](https://royalsoftworks.com/products/office-brief/faq/)