File Brain
File Brain is a desktop application that helps you find files instantly using natural language. Instead of remembering exact filenames, you can ask questions like "flight ticket invoice", and File Brain uses semantic search to understand the meaning and show the...
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
Platforms
- Windows
- Mac
- Linux
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- OCR
- Supports Zip files
- Dark Mode
- Built-in viewer
- Full-Text Search
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Semantic Search
- Desktop Application
- Local Search
- Filesystem
Tags
- Search
- Search Engine
- document-search
- fuzzy-search
- apache-tika
- archive-search
- Artificial intelligence
- file-indexing
- typesense
- filesystem-indexer
- Embedding
File Brain News & Activities
Recent activities
- Hamza5 added File Brain
Hamza5 added File Brain as alternative to DocFetcher, Listary, Recoll and FSearch- Hamza5 added File Brain as alternative to DocFetcher
File Brain information
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Hamza5 Licensing
Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
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What is File Brain?
File Brain is a desktop application that helps you find files instantly using natural language. Instead of remembering exact filenames, you can ask questions like "flight ticket invoice", and File Brain uses semantic search to understand the meaning and show the relevant files.
Key Features 🧠 Find what you mean: Uses advanced Semantic Search -in addition to full text search- to understand the intent behind your query (e.g., search for "worker", find documents mentioning "employee"). 📝 Typo Resistance: Robust against typos. Search for "iphone" even if you typed "ipnone". 📄 Supports Everything: Extracts the content of over 1400+ file formats (PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, images, archives, and more). 🌍 Cross-Language Search: Search in one language to find documents written in another (e.g., search for "Chair", find documents mentioning "Silla" -in Spanish-). 🚀 Fast Matching: Search results are shown within milliseconds, not minutes. 👁? OCR Support: Automatically extracts text from screenshots and scanned documents. ? Auto-Indexing: Detects changes in real-time and updates the index instantly. 🛡? Read-Only & Safe: File Brain only reads your files to index them. It never modifies, deletes, or alters your data in any way. 🔒 Privacy First: All indexing and processing happens 100% locally on your machine. Your data never leaves your computer.