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Ambar

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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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License model

  • FreemiumOpen Source

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

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

 Tags

  • Search Engine
  • search-content
  • ftp-ocr
  • smb
  • content-search-engine
  • text-search
  • crawling
  • archives
  • word-document-processing
  • document-archiving
  • content-search

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Ambar information

  • Developed by

    RD17
  • Licensing

    Open Source (MIT) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $0 + free version with limited functionality.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4
  • Alternatives

    12 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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GitHub repository

  •  1,949 Stars
  •  376 Forks
  •  2 Open Issues
  •   Updated Aug 26, 2021 (Archived)
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Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about Ambar, and it has gotten 4 likes

Ambar was added to AlternativeTo by Zayat on Mar 7, 2017 and this page was last updated Feb 17, 2022.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
rd17ambar
Apr 3, 2017
1

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.

Originally submitted via email

[Edited by rd17ambar, April 03]

zyyfaldz
Apr 3, 2017
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
Apr 3, 2017
2

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

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.

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