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Ambar

Document search engine with OCR and tagging

Document Management Archived ★ 1.9k stars Medium setup Apache-2.0

This project is archived. Upstream development has stopped, so expect no new features or security fixes. Consider an actively maintained document management alternative.

Ambar is an open-source document search engine that automatically crawls, OCRs, and indexes documents from configured sources. It provides a fast unified search across many file types.

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Key features

  • Automatic document crawling
  • OCR on images and PDFs
  • Unified full-text search
  • Tagging and labels

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Fast search across many sources
  • Good OCR coverage

Trade-offs

  • Development has slowed
  • Elasticsearch increases memory needs

Is Ambar secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Ambar's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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