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Martin Thoma
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Is there a self-hosted web service for file search?

I am looking for a nicer way to search files on the local file system via a web service. This service has to be self-hosted. I imagine it to look similar to google: A very simple user interface. When the user starts typing, it is already searching.

Hard Requirements:

  • Free as in beer
  • Free as in speech
  • Plugin-system or otherwise easily expandable
  • Tags: The user should be able to add tags to files
  • Automatically detects new files and adds them to the index
  • My data doesn't go to somebody else

Soft requirements:

  • Python plugins
  • Good documentation
  • Extracts text from PDF documents
  • Allow the user to create filters (to automatically add tags)
Martin Thoma
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