Self-hosted projects tagged “Semantic Search”

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

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-hosted AI answering engine that combines web search with local or hosted LLMs to generate cited answers, with search history and file uploads.

MITActively maintained

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Perplexity+5

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

Open-source, self-hosted AI note-taking app for fast capture and organization, with Markdown notes and RAG-based natural language search.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Evernote+19

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo and video management service with timeline views, metadata search, and machine-learning features like face recognition and semantic image search.

MITActively maintained

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Google Photos+9

Extension for Paperless‑ngx that uses OpenAI-compatible backends and Ollama to auto-classify, tag, index, and enable RAG-powered document chat and semantic search.

MITActively maintained

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AskYourPDF+19

Speakr is a self-hosted web app for recording or uploading audio, transcribing with AI (including diarization), and turning conversations into searchable, shareable notes.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Otter.ai+14

Self-hosted web app that indexes videos with AI (transcription, vision analysis, embeddings) to enable natural-language search and scene export.

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Vimeo+5

Self-hosted meme search engine that indexes images with local AI captions and vector embeddings for fast semantic and keyword search, tagging, and filtering.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Google Photos+5

Self-hosted RSS reader inspired by Google Reader, featuring smart folders, advanced search expressions, clustering, quality scoring, and Fever/Google Reader API compatibility.

MITActively maintained

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Feedly+7

Self-hosted photo & video manager that uses local AI (face recognition, OpenCLIP semantic search, duplicate detection) to organize and explore media.

Actively maintained

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Google Photos+14