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

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

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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.

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Sounds good. And Meilisearch handles that OK?

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

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Melisearch is integrated into Linkwarden. That’s about my extent of knowledge.

And have you found a way to have it search within PDFs?

I did look at melisearch briefly to see if I could use search engine databases in creating my own search engine just as a project because I’ve often toyed with the idea of having my own search engine, but it seemed a bit over my head. Smithsonian Libraries publish some of those databases.

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