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
File Brain News & Activities
Recent activities
- TBayAreaPat commented on File Brain
File Brain is “auto-indexing”. It detects changes in real time and updates the index instantly simialar to Flow Launcher. Note that not all similar programs use file-indexing which can add weight to the system, though this program claims to limit that. I currently use Find and Run Robot and Ultrasearch which both do not use indexing. Note that the Startup and installation on Windows is command line. File Brain does have a GUI that appears afterwards. It’s a web-style interface that opens in...
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- 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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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.
Comments and Reviews
File Brain is “auto-indexing”. It detects changes in real time and updates the index instantly simialar to Flow Launcher. Note that not all similar programs use file-indexing which can add weight to the system, though this program claims to limit that. I currently use Find and Run Robot and Ultrasearch which both do not use indexing. Note that the Startup and installation on Windows is command line. File Brain does have a GUI that appears afterwards. It’s a web-style interface that opens in your browser rather than a classic Win32 window. On Windows, this is python dependent. When you set it up via command line, it calls for old Python 3.9, so you will need to bypass using py -m pip install -U file-brain. Personally, I'm not into using Command Line to start a program.