Questions tagged [search]
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Reverse image search/duplicate finder like Google but locally?
I am not looking to find all duplicate files.
I have an image that is low resolution on my desktop, sadly as it's low resolution it's not really usable.
But somewhere on my computer, on one of the 4 ...
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ChatGPT clients on Android, and storing and sharing conversations
I have started to use ChatGPT to answer my questions, without getting distracted (by search results, and advertisements).
This is relatively effective on Android applications such as the new version ...
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Full text Search for pdfs downloaded in my machine In Windows 10?
I have experience with node.js etc. As well as some knowledge about elastic search. Could you guide me to a book or tutorial that helps me to do it? Or just recommend such a software?
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Crawling, indexing and searching a subscriber-only part of a website
I have a website with public and private sections. The private sections are available to signed-in users, and some only to paying users. I would like to index all pages and PDF assets and provide a ...
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Searching the source (website) of a file by uploading the file
I'd like to know if there is a way to know which is the web source where a file is taken. I have a ppt file and I'd like to upload it in a search engine in order to know which is the URL of the ...
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Is there any software to find lookalike image in PDFs?
I have a cropped screenshot of complicated math equation (digitised), which I can't find in a pdf file containing it just by simply typing the equation in the find box of the pdf viewer (because it is ...
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A way to gather stock images of a particular size on iOS
I find very often I need to put in some photos to some web app, like a freelance gig or some profile or activity.
It’s very common after gathering some from google images you find out many of them are ...
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Search engine that creates tables of information about a subject from unstructured data
I am looking for a webapp that would gather data from the web in a very similar way to a search engine, but instead of presenting the results as a list of titles and abstracts, it would dump the ...
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Is there a existing library for search function (e. g. include/exclude, and/or)?
I have a JavaFX application with a TableView. The user can filter the displayed rows with a search term they enter in a TextField.
Currently I iterate over all cells and use simply String.contains().
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Search engine for geotagged images, (drone) videos, etc
This would just be a search engine that indexes EXIF tags, etc., lets you view a map, and any geotagged images or videos would be shown as points on the map.
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What would be the easiest way to build some image search tool?
I have some needs for building some image search tool but am not an experienced search builder, solution like Algolia doesn't seem to be a perfect fit since the data that I have in my hand doesn't ...
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Software to search inside pdf files and produce output in readable format?
I have a folder called "CSS". Inside that folder, there are CSS books. Now, I want to get information about "background-color" for instance. But I don't know if I need to type ...
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A web tool for browsing/sharing .eml files with a non-technical user?
I'm switching accounting offices and before I get my documentation delivered, I'd like to help my new accountant catch up by sharing all e-mails with the previous one. I extracted .eml files from ...
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Blog Search Engines : is there any of them still alive?
All Blog Search Engines pointed by Wikipedia are LONG DEAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blog_search_engines .
Is there any working today? I'd like to engage with the current blogosphere, ...
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Bar graph of your searches frequency
Is there a tool that creates a bar graph of your searches representing number of searches on the vertical axes and time on the horizontal?
For example, if I searched for "how to bake potatoes&...
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Need Windows Tool for Finding and Selecting Multiple Files within Directory
I have multiple folders, each containing thousands of files with identical names (a file of a specific name exists in each of those folders). I have a list of file names that I want to take out of ...
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Advanced Search Tool
I am looking for a tool that is capable of displaying multiple text side by side along with an another file that contains the search string. Once I click every line in the search string file, tool ...
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Simple web-based desktop search app
Is there an open-source desktop indexing app that can be configured and queried via a web-based interface similar to what the discontinued google desktop search did (but without all the unnecessaries ...
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Lightweight alternative to elastic search
I only have 8 MB of data and 55000 items which I want to use for fuzzy autocompletion. The user base is very small and it is a research project so I don't need 100% uptime and replication.
Even with ...
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PDF reader with search history for Windows
Looking for a PDF reader with search history (say 100 last items) for Windows.
Both commercial and freeware recommendations are welcome.
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Deterministic (not subjective) search engine
Trying to find a search engine that actually just searches for what I type, and respects the modifying operators I use. Need to do a lot of exact searches, but Google gives shopping and does not ...
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Software to archive, organize and search for personal documents like invoices, bills, contracts etc
I am looking for a solution to put my scanned / photographed paper documents like invoices, bills, and already digital documents like pdfs, emails etc. int a folder on my local hard disk / NAS and be ...
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Is there an app for searching through PDFs using images?
I have a bunch of PDFs with images, symbols etc., all black and white if that helps, and using text to search through them is not possible. I have an image of a part of the document that I want.
Is ...
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totalcmd like file manager which will show found files in one of panels
I'm looking for totalcmd like file manager (2 panels) which will show found files (totalcmd alt+F7) in one of panels so I can copy/move them to another panel. It would be fine if found files will be ...
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Chromium / Chrome extension to improve visibility of “find” (Ctrl+F) results
When searching for text on webpages in Chromium / Chrome using Ctrl+F, the results will be highlighted in color.
The browser will also jump to the section of the page where it found your search query.
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Local code search
I have lots of personal projects sitting around from over the years that I want to be able to search. Sometimes there is a package or a function that I want to re-use.
I want this to run locally as a ...
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Chrome search multiple webpages
I looking for a way how to search multiple pages simultaneously. For example, I looking for some product "my product" and I want chrome to open shop1,shop2,shop3 and search the "my ...
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Windows Hex editor to search with Wildcards/Regex in Hex-Mode
I want to search in hex for 00 [01-ff] [01-ff] [01-ff] 00. I tried the following editors:
Notepad++ with hex plugin
HxD
XVI32
Far Manager with hex plugin
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WinMerge
No hex editor allows searching ...
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Application/framework for effective search in text data from relational database
I have a relational database (Microsoft SQL Server), that holds text data in one of its tables. Text data are not in the English language. I want to create a new search system that would allow users ...
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Windows search which OCR's images and pdfs with text in them
I often have scanned PDFs or JPEGs etc. which may have some text in them. One good example is screenshots that I take with screenshot captor.
Is there a way to make the Windows search "smart"...
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Use a low res image to find the high res version?
I have a low resolution image. I know that I have a higher resolution version somewhere on a backup drive. Is there any software that can use the low res image to find the high res version?
Ideally, ...
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Projects similar to google books
Are there other projects similar to google books that allow (legally defensible) search, snippet view, and/or metadata exploration of non-public domain books?
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Change-tracking searchable backup server with user accounts
Requirements:
I'm looking for software (and cloud platform) for an R&D startup company to perform periodic backups to a secure cloud. The backups should track changes (like Borg) to avoid data ...
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Video frame lookup or search using verbal audio utterances
I'm an animator trying to get a program that will use machine learning to automate the lip syncing process. The program I need made will have two files given to it: a seed, and an audio file. The seed ...
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Best data storage for a quick search
I have an app with approximately 20-40 million new documents added each month. Let's say these documents have approximately 4-8 fields I want to allow the user to search from. Not all entries are ...
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Search for text in some videos
I have some screen recordings of the game and want to search for some concrete text there (title of the mission). What program can I use to achieve that?
Can use it on Windows or Linux. Freeware is ...
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Search engine over text corpus
I have a couple of text file and I try to find the easiest way to drop all the files into one place and create a basic search query (with flexibility for little changes, search operators, etc.) over ...
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Search and Replace tool for Windows Registry
Please recommend a gratis Windows tool to perform search and replace operations in the Windows Registry.
I would like to select a Registry key and have the tool perform the search and replace ...
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macOS app to check if an image is already on the computer?
I'm looking for a photo de-duper app for Mac, but from a different angle than normal.
If I download a new image from the web, I want to know if I already have it on my Mac or not.
I have had trouble ...
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Is there a search engine with reverse search mechanism: processing multiple queries and retrieving a single result for each of them?
Most text search engines are intended for identification of multiple depositories storing the text of a user's query. I need one that does the opposite. Imagine we have two databases with overlapping ...
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Looking for software that allows me to look for a logo inside a group of images
I have between 60,000 and 100,000 images and 1.5% of them contain a specific logo. This logo is not always depicted in the same size or orientation. Is there a freeware program for Windows that would ...
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Software for categorizing data based on language and type
Currently, I'm using windows file explorer for categorizing. There are folders for years (2017, 2018, etc.) and each of them has sub-folders for types (type_1, type_2, etc.) and under each sub-folder, ...
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Is there any Android email app with advanced searching capability?
I have zillions of emails. I was suggested Bluemail app for Android but it sucks at searching.
I need to have something like Thunderbird has for desktops (no app, unfortunately) which allows me to ...
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Looking for a hex editor that can find specific binary sequence unaligned
I am looking for a Hex Editor that can do a search for a specific binary sequence, and find it in a file, without regard to byte alignment. I have an extracted and disassembled program that I am ...
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Python for large graphs
I have a large graph consisting of 30 million edges. Currently it is saved as a CSV file of the edges. I would like to run standard graph algorithms like BFS on it. Is there a library in Python for ...
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I would like to autoatically generate tags/keys that summarize each text document I have so i can search for them by tags/keys
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I would like a software recommendation that summarizes a long text document and produces keywords for that text document. Ideally, it will exclude words like "with, and, the, etc." and ...
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I'm looking for a grammar/parser for elasticsearch query_string
What I'm trying to achieve is to generate a valid elasticsearch query_string form inputs preferably in frontend.
In worst case it can be generated in the backend (nodeJS, NestJS).
I'm looking for ...
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wiki WITH modern browsing/searching/filtering
I'm trying to create a website that allows access-controlled wiki-style article creation WITH modern browsing, searching and filtering of this content. The issue is platforms like mediawiki or ...
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GUI for searching the content of multiple large text files or PDFs?
I have a few dozen PDFs, each of which are very large. Specifically:
These PDFs total to about 15GB.
These PDFs are primarily scanned images of textual documents, but they do contain the text data (...
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Software / API to track new concepts or ideas from web searches
Is there any Software or API of Google,Twitter or other search Engines or Social Networks to track emergent or new concepts/ideas (words) or new combinations, made from the searches in the web, but ...
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