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24 alternatives to Index and Search the contents of your files and scans

:mag: Ambar: Document Search Engine. Contribute to RD17/ambar development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Index and Search the contents of your files and scans launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Integrated ElasticSearch and Tika and PdfBox with REST API▲5
:mag: Ambar: Document Search Engine. Contribute to RD17/ambar development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Ambar▲4
Open-source document search and management system
2017 · ambar.cloud · its alternatives →
3
Explorer for GitHub▲148
Explore GitHub from your Mac menubar or iPhone
2016 · its alternatives →
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Search Google, GitHub, Stack Overflow, other sites from the terminal▲73
Open a web search in your terminal. Contribute to zquestz/s development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ContriBar▲137
Bring GitHub contributions chart to your Mac menu bar
2023 · contribar.framer.website · its alternatives →
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Ambar▲6
Make Your Docs Searchable
2017 · its alternatives →
7SR
Searchkit – React components for elasticsearch▲74
Searchkit - UI Widgets for Elasticsearch. React, Vue & Javascript supported
2016 · searchkit.co · its alternatives →
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Search for BibTeX references from your terminal▲40
Search for BibTeX references. Contribute to ekmartin/bibtex-search development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
9DS
Desktop search for your GitHub, GDocs, Jira, and more▲12
2017 · onebar.io · its alternatives →
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Index and search *all* your documents▲21
Hey HN! I've build a simple tool to index and search your documents. This uses two great open source libraries: apache tika (for extracting content from docs) and apache lucene (for searching). It's been built with kotlin ktor as a web framework. You can index all kind of files (i.e doc, docx, xls, ppt, pdf, txt, html even ORC pdfs) and then search them using very advanced queries like "always contain X", "never contain X", "X near Y", wildcard search, proper stemming support etc. We're using it on my work where we have hundreds of thousands of doc/docx/pdf files and it works…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Documents in Browser Address Bar▲6
search multiple programming documents in browser address bar
2020 · socode.pro · its alternatives →
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I built a tool to help you search Digi-Key quickly▲6
Search Digi-Key from your terminal. Contribute to mplewis/digiglass development by creating an account on GitHub.
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SimpleSearch – Just a list of search bars▲31
I made this site for myself, SimpleSearch.info, as new default browser page. I’m not sure if it actually _saves_ time or clicks (though, for me, it saves at least one click per search), but I find the search experience more pleasant. On desktop, it’s nice to just have these search bars as the first thing that pops up in a new window or tab vs clicking bookmarks in the toolbar or elsewhere then searching. Similarly, on mobile, I like just clicking on one icon for all my searches. The vast majority of my web browsing begins with a search or LLM query. I’m curious if this is helpful to anyone…
2025 · simplesearch.info · its alternatives →
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A local file search tool written in rust▲7
Cross-platform local file search engine. Contribute to naaive/orange development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quartermaster – Search and download torrents from the terminal▲8
Contribute to FifteenthStandard/Quartermaster development by creating an account on GitHub.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've written down everything I learned for the past year▲13
notes on things. Contribute to yoshuawuyts/knowledge development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source semantic search over your local notes via CLI▲9
Introducing Nia Vault, a CLI that lets you query your local markdown/text files using natural language. What it does: Semantic search over local folders and notes Works across multiple synced directories RAG-style answers with citations from your own files How it works: Calls `POST /search/query` with `local_folders` Uses `search_mode: sources` to return answers + file references Example: vault ask "What are my notes about project planning?" OSS: https://github.com/chenxin-yan/nia-vault
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Fselect – CLI tool to search files with SQL-like queries (made in Rust)▲8
Find files with SQL-like queries. Contribute to jhspetersson/fselect development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Preview a styled markdown document from a URL of your choice▲5
Show a styled markdown document from an URL. Contribute to matteobrusa/md-styler development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Glist.dev ▲14
Raycast for github
May 2026 · glist.dev · its alternatives →
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Gmake – A thin wrapper around make that finds makefiles for you▲7
rmake finds makefiles so you don't have to. Contribute to joshi4/rmake development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Mirror of all PDFs from the IACR's eprint archive in a Git repo▲8
Mirror of all PDFs from the IACR's eprint . Contribute to tuxxy/IACR-eprint-mirror development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I wrote a realtime search and/or pubsub (in memory, C)▲8
streaming index tool. Contribute to fizx/sit development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Rust Search Extension▲3
A handy browser extension to search rust docs in address bar
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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