Open Source Python Semantic Search Tools
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Haystack
Haystack is an open source NLP framework to interact with your data
Apply the latest NLP technology to your own data with the use of Haystack's pipeline architecture. Implement production-ready semantic search, question answering, summarization and document ranking for a wide range of NLP applications. Evaluate components and fine-tune models. Ask questions in natural language and find granular answers in your documents using the latest QA models with the help of Haystack pipelines. Perform semantic search and retrieve ranked documents according to meaning, not just keywords! Make use of and compare the latest pre-trained transformer-based languages models like OpenAI’s GPT-3, BERT, RoBERTa, DPR, and more. Pick any Transformer model from Hugging Face's Model Hub, experiment, find the one that works. Use Haystack NLP components on top of Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or plain SQL. Boost search performance with Pinecone, Milvus, FAISS, or Weaviate vector databases, and dense passage retrieval. -
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LibrePhotos
A self-hosted open source photo management service
LibrePhotos is an open-source self-hosted photo management platform designed to organize, browse, and analyze personal media libraries while preserving user privacy. The system allows individuals to store and manage their photos and videos locally rather than relying on commercial cloud services. It provides features similar to services like Google Photos but runs on a private server controlled by the user. The application includes AI-powered tools that automatically analyze images to detect faces, objects, and locations, allowing photos to be grouped and searched more efficiently. LibrePhotos supports a wide variety of media formats and provides a web interface that can be accessed from different devices and operating systems. The platform is built using a Django backend and a React frontend, forming a full-stack web application architecture. -
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ViMax
Director, Screenwriter, Producer, and Video Generator All-in-One
ViMax is an open-source framework for performing large-scale multi-modal vision-language modeling and reasoning by combining powerful image encoders with advanced language models to solve complex visual tasks. It integrates components like visual encoders, cross-modal fusion techniques, and reasoning modules so that users can go beyond simple captioning or classification to perform tasks such as visual question answering, multi-image inference, and structured scene understanding. ViMax’s design accommodates large image sets and supports retrieval augmentation, enabling it to work with external image databases, supplementary metadata, and semantic search to enhance context awareness. The system aims to bridge foundational vision backbones and generative language models through adapters and fusion layers that maximize both signal integration and reasoning depth, and includes utility pipelines for training, evaluation, and deployment. -
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Memvid
Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4
Memvid encodes text chunks as QR codes within MP4 frames to build a portable “video memory” for AI systems. This innovative approach uses standard video containers and offers millisecond-level semantic search across large corpora with dramatically less storage than vector DBs. It's self-contained—no DB needed—and supports features like PDF indexing, chat integration, and cloud dashboards. -
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SentenceTransformers
Multilingual sentence & image embeddings with BERT
SentenceTransformers is a Python framework for state-of-the-art sentence, text and image embeddings. The initial work is described in our paper Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks. You can use this framework to compute sentence / text embeddings for more than 100 languages. These embeddings can then be compared e.g. with cosine-similarity to find sentences with a similar meaning. This can be useful for semantic textual similar, semantic search, or paraphrase mining. The framework is based on PyTorch and Transformers and offers a large collection of pre-trained models tuned for various tasks. Further, it is easy to fine-tune your own models. Our models are evaluated extensively and achieve state-of-the-art performance on various tasks. Further, the code is tuned to provide the highest possible speed. -
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RAG API
ID-based RAG FastAPI: Integration with Langchain and PostgreSQL
rag_api is an open-source REST API for building Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using LLMs like GPT. It lets users index documents, search semantically, and retrieve relevant content for use in generative AI workflows. Designed for rapid prototyping, it is ideal for chatbot development, document assistants, and knowledge-based LLM apps. -
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SolidGPT
Developer AI Persona Search Agent
SolidGPT is a AI searching assistant for developers that helps code and workspace semantic search. -
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Burn To The Brim
Utility for efficiently grouping files and folders together
**Burn To The Brim** is a highly efficient archiving utility designed to solve the classic subset-sum (bin packing) optimization challenge. It intelligently selects and groups files and directories (documents, high-fidelity media, or raw back-ups) to optimally fill recordable Blu-Rays, USB drives or custom-capacity storage drives. By recursively scanning your designated folders, BTTB matches item sizes to your media capacity, finding a near-perfect selection in milliseconds and an absolute perfect packing configuration in just a few seconds. Burn to the Brim 4.0.0 introduces state-of-the-art machine learning semantic coherence logic to BTTB's classical packing algorithms. -
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MCP Server Qdrant
An official Qdrant Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation
The Qdrant MCP Server is an official Model Context Protocol server that integrates with the Qdrant vector search engine. It acts as a semantic memory layer, allowing for the storage and retrieval of vector-based data, enhancing the capabilities of AI applications requiring semantic search functionalities. -
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OpenViking
Context database designed specifically for AI Agents
OpenViking is an open-source context database engineered for efficient indexing and retrieval of large amounts of unstructured or semi-structured context data used by AI applications. It’s primarily designed to serve as a high-performance, scalable backend for storing app context, embeddings, conversational histories, and other textual artifacts that need rapid lookup and semantic search, which makes it especially useful for systems like chatbots or memory-augmented agents. The project is implemented with performance in mind, often leveraging optimized data structures that balance fast reads and writes with minimal resource consumption. Developers can integrate OpenViking into modern AI stacks to unify context storage across services, enabling consistent session history, personalized responses, and richer search experiences. -
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Pixeltable
Data Infrastructure providing an approach to multimodal AI workloads
Pixeltable is an open-source Python data infrastructure framework designed to support the development of multimodal AI applications. The system provides a declarative interface for managing the entire lifecycle of AI data pipelines, including storage, transformation, indexing, retrieval, and orchestration of datasets. Unlike traditional architectures that require multiple tools such as databases, vector stores, and workflow orchestrators, Pixeltable unifies these functions within a table-based abstraction. Developers define data transformations and AI operations using computed columns on tables, allowing pipelines to evolve incrementally as new data or models are added. The framework supports multimodal content including images, video, text, and audio, enabling applications such as retrieval-augmented generation systems, semantic search, and multimedia analytics. -
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Vector AI
A platform for building vector based applications
Vector AI is a framework designed to make the process of building production-grade vector-based applications as quick and easily as possible. Create, store, manipulate, search and analyze vectors alongside json documents to power applications such as neural search, semantic search, personalized recommendations etc. Image2Vec, Audio2Vec, etc (Any data can be turned into vectors through machine learning). Store your vectors alongside documents without having to do a db lookup for metadata about the vectors. Enable searching of vectors and rich multimedia with vector similarity search. The backbone of many popular A.I use cases like reverse image search, recommendations, personalization, etc. There are scenarios where vector search is not as effective as traditional search, e.g. searching for skus. Vector AI lets you combine vector search with all the features of traditional search such as filtering, fuzzy search, and keyword matching to create an even more powerful search. -
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txtai
Build AI-powered semantic search applications
txtai executes machine-learning workflows to transform data and build AI-powered semantic search applications. Traditional search systems use keywords to find data. Semantic search applications have an understanding of natural language and identify results that have the same meaning, not necessarily the same keywords. Backed by state-of-the-art machine learning models, data is transformed into vector representations for search (also known as embeddings). Innovation is happening at a rapid pace, models can understand concepts in documents, audio, images and more. Machine-learning pipelines to run extractive question-answering, zero-shot labeling, transcription, translation, summarization and text extraction. Cloud-native architecture that scales out with container orchestration systems (e.g. Kubernetes). Applications range from similarity search to complex NLP-driven data extractions to generate structured databases. The following applications are powered by txtai. -
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ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin
The ChatGPT Retrieval Plugin lets you easily find personal documents
The chatgpt-retrieval-plugin repository implements a semantic retrieval backend that lets ChatGPT (or GPT-powered tools) access private or organizational documents in natural language by combining vector search, embedding models, and plugin infrastructure. It can serve as a custom GPT plugin or function-calling backend so that a chat session can “look up” relevant documents based on user queries, inject those results into context, and respond more knowledgeably about a private knowledge base. The repo provides code for ingestion pipelines (embedding documents), APIs for querying, local server components, and privacy / PII detection modules. It also contains plugin manifest files (OpenAPI spec, plugin JSON) so that the retrieval backend can be registered in a plugin ecosystem. Because retrieval is often needed to make LLMs “know what’s in your docs” without leaking everything, this plugin aims to be a secure, flexible building block for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems. -
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Controllable-RAG-Agent
This repository provides an advanced RAG
Controllable-RAG-Agent is an advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed specifically for complex, multi-step question answering over your own documents. Instead of relying solely on simple semantic search, it builds a deterministic control graph that acts as the “brain” of the agent, orchestrating planning, retrieval, reasoning, and verification across many steps. The pipeline ingests PDFs, splits them into chapters, cleans and preprocesses text, then constructs vector stores for fine-grained chunks, chapter summaries, and book quotes to support nuanced queries. At query time, it anonymizes entities, creates a high-level plan, de-anonymizes and expands that plan into concrete retrieval or reasoning tasks, and executes them in sequence while continuously revising the plan. A key focus is hallucination control: each answer is verified against retrieved context, and responses are reworked when they are not sufficiently grounded in the source documents. -
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FlagEmbedding
Retrieval and Retrieval-augmented LLMs
FlagEmbedding is an open-source toolkit for building and deploying high-performance text embedding models used in information retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation systems. The project is part of the BAAI FlagOpen ecosystem and focuses on creating embedding models that transform text into dense vector representations suitable for semantic search and large language model pipelines. FlagEmbedding includes a family of models known as BGE (BAAI General Embedding), which are designed to achieve strong performance across multilingual and cross-lingual retrieval benchmarks. The toolkit provides infrastructure for inference, fine-tuning, evaluation, and dataset preparation, enabling developers to train custom embedding models for specific domains or applications. It also includes reranker models that refine search results by re-evaluating candidate documents using cross-encoder architectures, improving retrieval accuracy in complex queries. -
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Hugging Face Transformer
CPU/GPU inference server for Hugging Face transformer models
Optimize and deploy in production Hugging Face Transformer models in a single command line. At Lefebvre Dalloz we run in-production semantic search engines in the legal domain, in the non-marketing language it's a re-ranker, and we based ours on Transformer. In that setup, latency is key to providing a good user experience, and relevancy inference is done online for hundreds of snippets per user query. Most tutorials on Transformer deployment in production are built over Pytorch and FastAPI. Both are great tools but not very performant in inference. Then, if you spend some time, you can build something over ONNX Runtime and Triton inference server. You will usually get from 2X to 4X faster inference compared to vanilla Pytorch. It's cool! However, if you want the best in class performances on GPU, there is only a single possible combination: Nvidia TensorRT and Triton. You will usually get 5X faster inference compared to vanilla Pytorch. -
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LEANN
Local RAG engine for private multimodal knowledge search on devices
LEANN is an open source system designed to enable retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search across personal data while running entirely on local devices. It focuses on dramatically reducing the storage overhead typically required for vector search and embedding indexes, enabling efficient large-scale knowledge retrieval on consumer hardware. LEANN introduces a storage-efficient approximate nearest neighbor index combined with on-the-fly embedding recomputation to avoid storing large embedding vectors. By recomputing embeddings during queries and using compact graph-based indexing structures, LEANN can maintain high search accuracy while minimizing disk usage. It aims to act as a unified personal knowledge layer that connects different types of data such as documents, code, images, and other local files into a searchable context for language models. -
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Language Models
Explore large language models in 512MB of RAM
languagemodels is a lightweight Python library designed to simplify experimentation with large language models while maintaining extremely low hardware requirements. The project focuses on enabling developers and students to explore language model capabilities without needing expensive GPUs or large cloud infrastructures. By using small and optimized models, the library allows LLM inference to run in environments with limited resources, sometimes requiring only a few hundred megabytes of memory. The package provides simple APIs that allow developers to generate text, perform semantic search, classify text, and answer questions using local models. It is particularly useful for educational purposes, as it demonstrates the fundamental mechanics of language model inference and prompt-based applications. The repository includes multiple example applications such as chatbots, document question answering systems, and information retrieval tools. -
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MemU
MemU is an open-source memory framework for AI companions
MemU is an agentic memory layer for LLM applications, specifically designed for AI companions. Transform your memory into an intelligent file system that automatically organizes, connects, and evolves with your memories. Simple, fast, and reliable memory infrastructure for AI applications. Powerful tools and dedicated support to scale your AI applications with confidence. Full proprietary features, commercial usage rights, and white-labeling options for your enterprise needs. SSO/RBAC integration and a dedicated algorithm team for scenario-specific optimization. User behavior analysis, real-time monitoring, and automated agent optimization tools. 24/7 dedicated support team, custom SLAs, and professional implementation services. -
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ModernBERT
Bringing BERT into modernity via both architecture changes and scaling
ModernBERT is an open-source research project that modernizes the classic BERT encoder architecture by incorporating recent advances in transformer design, training techniques, and efficiency improvements. The goal of the project is to bring BERT-style models up to date with the capabilities of modern large language models while preserving the strengths of bidirectional encoder architectures used for tasks such as classification, retrieval, and semantic search. ModernBERT introduces architectural improvements that enhance both training efficiency and inference performance, making the model more suitable for modern large-scale machine learning pipelines. The repository also includes FlexBERT, a modular framework that allows developers to experiment with different encoder building blocks and configurations when constructing new models. -
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PaperAI
Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers
PaperAI is an open-source framework for searching and analyzing scientific papers, particularly useful for researchers looking to extract insights from large-scale document collections. -
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Python Client For NLP Cloud
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER
NLP Cloud serves high performance pre-trained or custom models for NER, sentiment-analysis, classification, summarization, dialogue summarization, paraphrasing, intent classification, product description and ad generation, chatbot, grammar and spelling correction, keywords and keyphrases extraction, text generation, image generation, blog post generation, source code generation, question answering, automatic speech recognition, machine translation, language detection, semantic search, semantic similarity, tokenization, POS tagging, embeddings, and dependency parsing. It is ready for production, served through a REST API. You can either use the NLP Cloud pre-trained models, fine-tune your own models, or deploy your own models. -
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Semantra
Multi-tool for semantic search
Semantra is an open-source semantic search tool designed to help users explore large collections of documents by meaning rather than simple keyword matching. The software analyzes text and PDF documents stored locally and creates embeddings that allow queries to retrieve results based on conceptual similarity. It is primarily intended for individuals who need to extract insights from large document collections, including researchers, journalists, students, and historians. The system runs from the command line and automatically launches a local web interface where users can perform interactive searches and examine document passages related to a query. By relying on semantic embeddings and contextual analysis, the tool can identify passages that are relevant even when the query uses different wording than the source documents. -
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SimpleMem
SimpleMem: Efficient Lifelong Memory for LLM Agents
SimpleMem is a lightweight memory-augmented model framework that helps developers build AI applications that retain long-term context and recall relevant information without overloading model context windows. It provides easy-to-use APIs for storing structured memory entries, querying those memories using semantic search, and retrieving context to augment prompt inputs for downstream processing. Unlike monolithic systems where memory management is ad-hoc, SimpleMem formalizes a memory lifecycle—write, index, retrieve, refine—so applications can handle user history, document collections, or dynamic contextual state systematically. It supports customizable embedding models, efficient vector indexes, and relevance weighting, making it practical for building assistants, personal agents, or domain-specific retrieval systems that need persistent knowledge.
