Ambar VS ripgrep-all

AnyTXT.net for PC. https://github.com/RD17/ambar and https://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html for Linux

One product could be "Ambar: Document Search Engine"

https://github.com/RD17/ambar

> Ambar is an open-source document search engine with automated crawling, OCR, tagging and instant full-text search

> *Easily deploy Ambar with a single docker-compose file; *Perform Google-like search through your documents and contents of your images; *Tag your documents; *Use a simple REST API to integrate Ambar into your workflow

There was an open-source program called Ambar that was pretty chill. It let you full-text search documents, perform OCR on these documents, and tag. There surely exist apps that do each, but the nice thing about Ambar was it incorporated all of the above into one nice GUI.

I don't need any other features (other than batch uploading). The best ones I've found so far are Ambar, I, librarian, and Lodestone with their multiple 'snippet' search functionality, however for various reasons they won't work with my use case.[1]

Ambar - Document Search Engine · An open-source document search engine with automated crawling, OCR, tagging and instant full-text search

Amber Main Page and GitHub

There is also stuff like Mayan EDMS which is much more enterprise-oriented or Ambar which targeted more for individual users.

I searched in portage, and it seems there is another version working also with other documents like PDFs and doc.

https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all

If you want even faster search across different formats, you can try ripgrep-all ( https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all ). It can search across epub, docx, pdf, zip, mp4 etc. If you are handy with the tool, you can write custom adaptor to search across images using OCR with tesseract.

1. If you want better adoption especially among corporations, GPL-3 wont cut it. Maybe think of some business friendly licenses (MIT etc)

2. I understand the excitement about llm's. But how about making something more accessible. I use rip-grep-all (rga) along with fzf [1] that can search all files including pdfs in a specific folders. However, I would like a GUI tool to search across multiple folders, provide priority of results across folders and store and search histories where I can do a meta-search. This is sufficient for 95% of my usecases to search locally and I dont need LLM. If khoj can enable such search as default without LLM that will be a gamechanger for many people without a heavy compute machine or who dont want to use OpenAI.

[1] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all/wiki/fzf-Integration

I use `rga` to search through multiple PDF files for work. The tool returns a list of files and I would like to make those file paths clickable.

rga, aka ripgrep-all

I wanted to say 'au contrer' to your 'screenshots are not searchable' and link this[0] but I don't actually see images in the readme.. I swear it was there, maybe it's a buried extra flag..

[0] https://github.com/phiresky/ripgrep-all