Aleph
Search and document management for investigative work
Aleph is an open-source tool for indexing, searching, and cross-referencing large collections of documents and structured data, built for investigative journalism. It performs OCR, entity extraction, and link analysis across archives.
Key features
- OCR and text extraction
- Entity cross-referencing
- Full-text document search
- Investigative archives
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Active community (2.4k GitHub stars)
- Written in JavaScript
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