Search private document piles locally with DocuBrowse and Ollama

DocuBrowse is a local-first document search app for people with scattered PDFs, Office files, ebooks, notes, and archives.

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Value
A defined use for searching personal document collections.
Ease of use
Requires technical setup.
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No concrete harmful behavior was established, but execution was not checked.
Privacy
Local processing is the stated approach, not a verified data-flow result.
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Use DocuBrowse when the problem is not writing more notes but finding the files you already have. It indexes PDFs, Office files, ebooks, HTML, Markdown, and text, then combines SQLite full-text search with local Ollama embeddings for semantic lookup. A practical workflow: point it at a research, contracts, swipe-file, or client-docs folder; run a scan; search by meaning instead of exact filenames; open the hit or generate a local synopsis before reading the whole document. The value is privacy and zero per-query API cost. The caveat is setup: Python, package dependencies, and local models make this better for technical users than for someone expecting a one-click cloud app.

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