Ambar
Document search engine with OCR and tagging
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.
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
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