Self-hosted projects tagged “Full Text Search”

Immich is an open-source platform for organizing, backing up, and streaming photos and videos with web and mobile clients, searchable metadata, face clustering, and S3-compatible storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14

Meilisearch is a lightning-fast search engine API for apps and websites, offering typo-tolerant full-text search plus vector and AI-ready hybrid retrieval.

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Algolia+16

Joplin is an offline-first, privacy-focused note and to-do app with end-to-end encryption, Markdown support, web clipping, and sync across desktop and mobile.

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Evernote+19

Paperless-ngx is an open-source document management system that ingests scans and files, runs OCR, and turns them into a searchable, taggable document archive.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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DocuWare+6

Self-hostable personal AI 'second brain' for chat, semantic search, custom agents, automations and integration with local or cloud LLMs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Google NotebookLM+16

Self-hostable bookmark-everything app for links, notes, images, PDFs, and archives with full-text search, AI tagging/summaries, RSS ingestion, and API access.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Pocket+11

Self-hosted tool to collect and preserve webpages, media, and bookmarks in durable formats (HTML, PDF, WARC, MP4) with a CLI, web UI, and search.

MITActively maintained

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Internet Archive Wayback Machine+3

Typesense is a developer-friendly search engine for instant, typo-tolerant search-as-you-type with faceting, filtering, geo search, and vector/semantic search APIs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Algolia+19

PostgreSQL is an advanced open source object-relational database with strong SQL compliance, ACID transactions, extensibility, and robust indexing and replication options.

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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)+12

Self-hosted collaborative bookmark manager with reader mode, highlights, tagging, full-text search, and automatic webpage preservation as screenshots and PDFs.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Linkwarden Cloud+10

BookStack is a simple documentation and wiki platform with a WYSIWYG and optional Markdown editor, full-text search, permissions, and integrated authentication.

MITActively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+16

ZincSearch is a Go-based, lightweight search engine for full-text indexing with Elasticsearch API-compatible ingestion, a Vue UI, and a schema-less document model.

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Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch Service)+7

Open-source collaborative documentation and wiki platform with real-time editing, offline sync, export features and flexible self-hosting options.

MITActively maintained

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Notion+17

Lightweight, extensible forum platform built in PHP with a Mithril.js frontend, supporting MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/SQLite and an active extensions ecosystem.

MITActively maintained

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Flarum Cloud+8

OpenSearch is an Apache 2.0 open source distributed search and analytics engine for indexing, querying, and analyzing large-scale data with REST APIs.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Amazon OpenSearch Service+19

Manticore Search is a fast open-source search database for full-text, faceted, and vector search with SQL (MySQL protocol) and HTTP JSON APIs.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Manticore Search+15

Open-source self-hosted reading server providing EPUB/PDF/comics readers, OPDS feeds, rich metadata, user/role management, full-text search and a REST API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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BookFusion+5

Open-source RSS reader with real-time feed updates, training-based filtering, full-text search, social sharing, and native mobile apps; available hosted or self-hosted.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+13

Buku is a fast, privacy-focused CLI bookmark manager storing bookmarks in a portable SQLite DB. It supports imports/exports, smart tagging, regex search and an optional web UI.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Pinboard+10

Open-source, cross-platform Qt e-reader and library manager with cloud sync, highlighting, an in-app bookstore, AI-assisted lookups, and support for common formats.

GPL-3.0Likely dormant

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Adobe Digital Editions+4

Minimalistic document management and archiving platform for long-term storage, full-text search, tagging, and automated ingestion via email or folders.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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M-Files+11

DokuWiki is a lightweight, file-based wiki engine with ACL, versioning, and a rich plugin/template ecosystem for documentation and knowledge bases.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Atlassian Confluence+14

Nominatim provides geocoding (name/address → coordinates) and reverse geocoding (coordinates → address) powered by OpenStreetMap, with import tooling and a public API.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Mapbox+1

Open-source Ruby on Rails music streaming server that indexes a local music directory, provides web and mobile players, playlists, multi-user accounts, and Docker deployment.

MITActively maintained

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Plex+12

Self-hosted trail catalog to plan routes, upload GPX/GPS tracks, add metadata, and search, filter, and share trails with optional federation.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Ride with GPS+2

Feedbin is a web-based RSS reader for organizing and reading feeds with full-text extraction, powerful search, filtering actions, and a REST-like API for clients.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+19

MIT-licensed core of Shopware 6: an API-first, Symfony-based commerce platform with Vue storefront, visual page builder, extensibility and multi-channel support.

MITActively maintained

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Shopify+8

Self-hosted, database-less note-taking web app that stores notes as plain Markdown files in a folder, with tagging, wiki links, and full-text search.

MITActively maintained

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Simplenote+13

Open-source DMS that OCRs, indexes, and manages scanned PDFs, TIFFs and images with tagging, versioning, metadata and full-text search support.

Apache-2.0Slowing down

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DocuWare+7

Raneto is an open-source, file-based Markdown knowledge base for Node.js with web editing, full-text search, theming, and optional login protection—no database required.

MITActively maintained

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GitBook+13