Welcome to Picardy - Picardy Indexing

Welcome to Picardy, an application for creating, editing, and formatting back-of the-book and online indexes, available for Microsoft Windows™, Linux, and Macintosh™.

Picardy enables authors and indexers to add index items in any order, using an easy-to-understand text notation or via insert/edit dialogs. The software will alphabetize, collate, and format the index using settings you’ve selected. You can preview as you work, and then export the index in several formats, including RTF, HTML, and plain text. Picardy provides common editing tools such as find/replace and spell-checking, as well as index-oriented productivity features like item manipulation, grouping, templates, and clipboard functions.

Picardy can also be used to create embedded indexes in conjunction with tools such as DEXembed™.

This software is free of charge and freely distributable for commercial and non-commercial use, subject to the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0.

Picardy is not open source software.

Download it now! Or check out the features first.

Read the review by Michael Wyatt in the ANZSI newsletter. (Reproduced with permission from the ANZSI Newsletter vol. 20 no. 1+2, February+April 2024, pages 10–16, published by the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers. Opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Society.)

Picardy is also reviewed in the September 2024 issue of the journal The Indexer (subscription required).

Picardy 2.1 is ready!

Picardy 2.1 is a minor release that updates Picardy 2.0 with some new features and a few bug fixes. It is available for download for the Windows™, Macintosh™, and Linux platforms here.

The changes include:

groups
templates
hyperlink locators
status bar
sort edit pane
replacement text regular expressions
improved backups
improved highlights

Picardy 2.0

See our product announcement and the new feature list.

Please upgrade to version 2.1 if you have been using Picardy 2.0 for Windows™, Macintosh™, or Linux.

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Donations

If you’ve used Picardy and are happy with it, please consider a donation. Any support will be greatly appreciated. However, this is completely voluntary and you’re most welcome to use Picardy free of charge!