desktop search - open source & paranoia-free

Spotlight in Apple MacOS X, Google Desktop Search and Windows Search offer searching within file's content and media attributes, for a wide range of filetypes including PDF, MS Office, OpenOffice etc. This is extremely useful, when working productively with large collections of pdf, especially if you did not take enough care of maintaining much order in your files.
Unfortunately, one may not feel comfortable to let google, microsoft or even apple view the very heart of your files, especially as they also offer a network index sharing function. Might be really wise to be a little bit paranoiac these days. Not that I have a big deal to hide, but just for a good feeling.

It appears to me, there are not so many high quality open source replacements, or at least, easily usable ones. I found DocFetcher to be quite good at doing the basic job, although it won't certainly win any design award. It's text-only search, no mp3/image/video attribute search, and has also a primitive but effective preview function, working also with pdfs, highlighting the search query as you can see here (click to enlarge):