Open Source ChromeOS Search Software

CLucene is a C++ port of Lucene: the high-performance, full-featured text search engine written in Java. CLucene is faster than lucene as it is written in C++.

Career Ops is an open-source platform designed to help individuals manage their job search process with a structured, operations-style approach that treats career development like a pipeline. It provides a system for organizing job applications, tracking progress across different stages, and maintaining visibility into opportunities, much like a lightweight CRM tailored for job seekers. The project emphasizes clarity and accountability, enabling users to monitor applications, follow-ups, and outcomes in a centralized environment. It is typically built with modern web technologies, allowing for easy customization and self-hosting by developers who want full control over their data. Career Ops focuses on reducing the chaos and fragmentation that often comes with job searching by introducing a repeatable workflow that can be iterated and improved over time. It also supports the idea of data-driven job searching.

turbovec is a Rust-based vector index with Python bindings for fast similarity search. It is built around TurboQuant, a quantization approach designed to reduce vector storage while preserving useful distance information. The project targets workloads where embedding search needs to be compact, efficient, and practical to integrate into Python applications. It avoids a separate training phase for the quantizer, which can simplify setup compared with systems that require codebook learning. TurboVec is useful for developers building retrieval, ranking, semantic search, recommendation, or AI memory systems. Its main value is combining Rust performance with a Python-facing workflow for modern vector search experiments and applications.

Laravel Scout provides a simple, driver-based solution for adding full-text search to your Eloquent models. Once Scout is installed and configured, it will automatically sync your model changes to your search indexes.

MiniSearch is a minimalist web search application with a built-in AI assistant that runs largely inside the browser for privacy-focused information retrieval. The project combines metasearch capabilities with local or remote language model inference to provide conversational answers alongside traditional search results. It is designed to be lightweight, easy to deploy with Docker, and configurable for both personal and hosted use cases. The platform supports browser-level integration so users can set it as their default search engine for quick access. Its architecture emphasizes privacy by avoiding tracking and minimizing data collection while still enabling advanced AI features. Overall, MiniSearch targets users who want a self-hosted, Perplexity-style search experience with strong control over data and models.

Power searching on your desktop without the pain. Perform powerful desktop searches without having to index your system using regular expressions. Graphical equivalent to find/grep. Available for Windows (JAVA) and Linux (Gnome & KDE) and easy to translate into your locale.

Search and replace operations on file content accross multiple files. Recursive operations within entire directory trees. FAR comes with support for regular expressions (regex) over multiple lines, automatic backup and various character encodings. Run grep like extractions to condense or rearrange sources, or perform bulk file renaming.

disk manager is a CD/DVD archiving tool. It storys the directory contents of any media so you can search it later. Its also designed as file explorer which makes it easy to find big files. Windows Version supports native file context menus.

This is a autorun menu for cd's. It link a name with a file and a short description. It can execute/open files, copy directories, execute commands, etc and it is really easy to use. (Spanish)

PileWorks provides the organizational structure for coordinating several different projects which approach some aspect of Pile Technology. PileWorks defines a set of interfaces and implements some basic infrastructure for Pile engines and agents.

Enhanced version of the standard Unix strings(1) program which uses language models for automatic language identification and character-set identification, supporting over 1400 languages, dozens of character encodings, and 4800+ language/encoding pairs.

Aperture is a Java framework for extracting and querying full-text content and metadata from various information systems (file systems, web sites, mail boxes, ...) and the file formats (documents, images, ...) occurring in these systems.

esearch is an extensible firefox-like searchbar seemless integrated within eclipse.

DuMP3 is a duplicate and similar file finder. It finds exact duplicate binaries by hash, similar text files by substring content, images (JPG, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc) by color and audio files (MP3, WAV, OGG, etc) by wave data. Future: fonts, video.

Many times, developers (or even, normal users) run into an issue of searching for a resource that is inside a zip. Worse, that resource is inside a zip which is itself inside ANOTHER zip (i.e. nested archive). Possibly you need to verify whether a particular resource is present in an ear or you want to know part of a file name but don't know which zip/jar on your hard disk contains that class file. zfind solves this problem. zfind is very fast and it works on most common archive/compress files. Apart from GUI and command line, it also provides API support which let's you use it in your java code as a 3rd party library. Thanks for using, and if you find any bug, do post a ticket or discussion topic. I can't fix anything if I don't know the problem :) **Check Wiki for USAGE details

This library implements several locality sensitive hashing(LSH) based algorithms, including indexing data structure for high dimensional spaces and metric spaces, sketch constructions and set embedding algorithms.

PDFcat - Portable Document (PDF) Catalog Manager

Enable your academic documents on your hard-drive to be searched using an automated solution with limited user-intervention. All this is done in a non-intrusive manner, ensuring your files are not moved.

BeanQuery is a Java solution that allows for querying arbitrary collections of arbitrary object types by using a criteria like API in a declarative and typesafe manner.

A high-performance implementation of bloom filters, a lightweight duplicate detection algorithm.

Dessy is a DEsktop Search and SYnchronization framework for mobile devices. It allows file search using content, metadata, and custom tags, and synchronization of results, and entire file system subtrees. It works on MIDP 2.0 handsets and Java 2 SE.

Didaskon will deliver a framework for assembling a curriculum from existing learning objects provided by e-Learning services. The selection of learning objects will be based on the semantically annotated specification of the user's current skills.

The application should take a directory and parse it recursively or not, and execute a given executor. The executors shuold be pluggable and rendered on the application's ui according to some strict rules.

Java application using tree map algorithms to visualise disc space usage. Lets find forgotten large "space-eaters" files in an easy way.

Document summarization system. By adding document content to system, user queries will generate a summary document containing the available information to the system.