I got tired of searching my own files and never finding anything. DocuBrowse fixes that — search by meaning, not just keywords, and it runs entirely on your machine. No cloud, no account, no per-query fee. Free, open source, GPL-3.0.

Hey PH 👋 Backstory: I had something like 12,000 files scattered across my machine — PDFs, notes, old contracts, whatever — and I could never find the one I actually needed. Searching "that lease renewal thing" did nothing if those exact words weren't in the file. So I built DocuBrowse. It indexes everything locally across 40+ formats — PDF, DOCX, EPUB, email, code, even diagrams — and search actually understands what you mean, not just what you typed. There's also Deep Links, which jumps you straight to the matching paragraph inside a doc instead of dumping you at the top of a 200-page PDF to go hunting. All the AI runs on your own machine through Ollama. No API key, no account, nothing leaves your computer. It's free and GPL-3.0. Runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Happy to answer anything — especially curious what people think of the search relevance.

Personally just hoping it does well and ya'll like it. The concept being. You ask yourself. Didn't I have docs on this? Or didn't I get an e-book off of LinkedIn etc. It's the didn't I with a huge ?. Now I've hopefully started something that allows you to switch from "Didn't I" to "Yes it's right here" Without having to manually search for a couple of hours. Small Language models running locally so nothing goes off the net and your token count doesn't get burned.
Currently working in English Japanese Korean and Chinese (for some reason it got picked up in Japan before I started i8n so they got to be first) Other Euro languages to follow ... and then? Let me know what ya'll think. As best I can I'll try and accomidate you.

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Finally search your files by meaning. 100% local, 100% yours

Finally search your files by meaning. 100% local, 100% yours

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