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Ambar

Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Open Source (MIT)

Alerts

  • Discontinued

Platforms

  • Online
  • VirtualBox
  • Self-Hosted
  • Docker
Discontinued

The last release was in 2018, and the GitHub repository of the project is archived, so no further development will be done.

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Features

  1.  OCR
  2.  Full-Text Search
  3.  Scheduled Data Crawling
  4.  REST API
  5.  Sync with Google Drive
  6.  Screenshot OCR
  7. Dropbox icon  Sync with Dropbox
  8.  PDF OCR

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Comments and Reviews

   
rd17ambar
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Hi, Great service, it enables me to search quickly through all my text notes on dropbox. A possible enhancement would be if I could forward mail to ambar to save and index it.

Regards and keep up the good work,

Mike.

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[Edited by rd17ambar, April 03]

zyyfaldz
1

Ambar scans folders for documents, indexes them, runs OCR across, and lets you find documents via keyword search and gives you the direct links and displays some content even directly as a preview in the search results.

While some OCR results are not exactly pleasing to the eye, especially formatted data such as tables, it really does a good job at finding everything quickly. What I am missing is some control over resource use of the provided VM, as well as some more customization of the interface. Though I assume that that is currently reserved for Enterprise customers or in the making.

Great job, best OCR search package I've seen!

zyyfaldz
2

The best I've found, and still being developed meaning that the opportunities for improvement still left might just be fulfilled!

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What is Ambar?

Ambar is a smart documents archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding. Ambar securely stores them and gives you an ability to search through their content and metadata in milliseconds. It is very lightweight, simple and intuitive, but yet very fast and powerful in terms of data amount and scaling. All the rocket-science is hidden behind the simple UI.

Ambar information

  • Developed by

    RD17
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) + free version with limited functionality.
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  1,944 Stars
  •  367 Forks
  •  2 Open Issues
  •   Updated  (Archived)
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Ambar, and it has gotten 4 likes

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