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.
What you get from it
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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