Live-System
- Encryption: Documents and index are safed on an external encrypted device (dm-crypt / cryptsetup / luks)
- Privacy: not sending documents or search queries to spying cloud services
- Unhosted: no need for a server or an internet connection
- Very easy adding or indexing of documents: Just copy them to the document directory or use the option "Index for search" in the file manager context menu.
- Easy and powerful search
Search engine
- Full text search
- Flexible and powerfull search operators (apache lucene/solr)
- Explorative search: Easy navigation through paths, dates, organizations, locations, persons, content-types and words
- Faceted search: Get a overview of the meta data with grouped facets like authors, paths or content types
- Powerfull filters: Drill down masses of documents with some clicks to a few wanted results
- Semantic Wiki for notes, tagging and annotation
- OCR: Automatically recognition and indexing of text in images (for example for graphical formats, fax or scanned documents)
- Supports many content types: Files, Documents, Word, OpenOffice, Excel, Spredsheats, Presentations, Powerpoint, PDF, Images, JPG and many more (uses Apache Tika)...
- Document mining, text mining and text analysis: Word lists
- Named entities extraction: Manage named entities like organizations, persons or locations to get an overview which entities were found within your search context and how many of the found documents contain that entities
- Visualization: Trend charts and wordcloud
- Works on cheap standard hardware (you don't need an expensive mac nor an expensive server, an old pc or laptop for one or two hundret dollars is enough)
- Works completely offline: you dont need internet
- Big data: works with thousands, hundretthousands and up to millions of documents