Ambar
Document search engine with OCR and tagging
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
Ambar replaces
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