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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldbySuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone
2 days

Does any self host Meilisearch?

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https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/capabilities/full_text_search/overview

Broadly, how do you find it? Are its semantic search features useful? And have you found a way to have it search within PDFs?

Anything that I should know about it, any features you feel are fantastic or feel are lacking?

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    • async_amuro@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 days

      I use Karakeep which uses Mellisearch as a part of its stack

      • moonpiedumplings@programming.devEnglish
        2 days

        Paperless ngx seems to support fulltext search of PDF’s, in addition to other document types.

        • lietuva@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 days

          It’s part of Bar Assistant stack. Haven’t got into it outside of it

          • bradbeattie@lemmy.caEnglish
            2 days

            Yep. I have an instance I self-host to power a “cookbooks -> scanner -> images -> OCR -> indexed search” tool I built for myself. The whole thing is pretty much just a few bash scripts thinly wired into a Meilisearch instance, but the utility is helpful when looking for a recipe from my collection.

              • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
                2 days

                Sounds good. And Meilisearch handles that OK?

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