Recoll is free/open source (GPL) that can index PDFs and search them very quickly. It uses Xapian under the hood. I have over 165,000 documents indexed on an old laptop running Linux and can query them all in a split second.
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12 months ago
+ xapian which has been around a while, and while gpl licensed, is quite capable https://xapian.org/.
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almost 2 years ago
Tangentially related if you need search without the clustering and high availability story of elastic search and friends I highly recommend Xapian. Its like the SQLite of search. Single library that provides the basic set of features you would expect in a quality search experience: facets, ranked search, boolean operators, stemming etc etc. https://xapian.org/.
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about 2 years ago
For fast searching, it usually requires indexing the files in question. There are a number of text-file indexing solutions, many of which use xapian, sphinx, or lucene/solr under the hood. Based on conditions (watching files/directories, cron jobs, new-mail triggers, etc), they’ll add/remove files to the index, and you can then use a corresponding command to compose queries across that data. If it’s indexed, it…
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over 2 years ago
There is also xapian/recoll https://xapian.org/ which works great for “desktop” search.
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over 2 years ago
A reminder about Xapian which the author did not include (it is only a library) https://xapian.org/.
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about 3 years ago
I’m always surprised when people haven’t heard of Xapian which is also in this space. I tell people Xapian is the SQLite of search. https://xapian.org/.
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over 3 years ago
