RD17/ambar
:mag: Ambar: Document Search Engine observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3565
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1833
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1943 stars · 368 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Ambar is an open-source, self-hosted document search engine with automated file system crawling, OCR, tagging, and instant Google-like full-text search across documents and image contents. It is deployed via docker-compose and exposes a simple REST API for integration.
Use cases
- search text inside pdfs and scanned images with ocr
- self-hosted full-text search over a local file share
- index ms office documents and email archives for search
- fuzzy and phrase search across company documents
- automatically index new files as they appear on disk
- search documents by author, tags, date, or file size
When to choose
- you need a self-hosted Google-like search over local documents including OCR of PDFs and images
- you want automatic indexing of files as they change on a mounted filesystem
- you need multilingual analyzers and rich query syntax (fuzzy, phrase, field filters)
When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - it was archived in 2021
- you need crawling of SMB/FTP sources without manual mounting
- you need cloud-native or managed search rather than a docker-compose deployment
Facets
application · maturity abandoned
search-engine ocr pdf web-scraping self-hosted files pdf self-hosted developer-tools self-hosted full-text-search document-search content-extraction file-crawler elasticsearch archived-project search docker linux web-server
4 sources
- readme: https://github.com/RD17/ambar · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2c3427a0ca60
- homepage: https://ambar.cloud/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c644c028de7f
- site_page: https://ambar.cloud/about-us · fetched 2026-08-29 · aab7b53d989a
- site_page: https://docs.ambar.cloud · fetched 2026-08-29 · 72b8ede80263
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| RD17/ambar | main | 10 |
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