File Brain is an intelligent desktop file search application that helps you locate files using natural-language queries.
It combines semantic and full-text search, allowing it to find relevant documents by meaning rather than relying solely on exact filenames or keywords.
The application indexes selected folders and extracts searchable content from more than 1,000 file formats, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images and archives. Indexing and search processing are performed locally, and File Brain only reads files without modifying their contents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Finds files using natural-language and semantic search.
- Combines semantic search with conventional full-text search.
- Tolerates spelling mistakes and approximate search terms.
- Extracts content from more than 1,000 file formats.
- Uses OCR to extract text from screenshots and scanned documents.
- Supports cross-language searches.
- Automatically detects new and modified files and updates its index.
- Offers manual indexing for performing a complete scan of selected folders.
- Processes and indexes files locally.
- Operates in a read-only manner without altering indexed files.
- Provides optional NVIDIA GPU acceleration for indexing.
Website: github.com/Hamza5/file-brain
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Developer: Hamza Abbad
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
File Brain is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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