# RD17/ambar

:mag: Ambar: Document Search Engine

Repository: https://github.com/RD17/ambar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/ambar
Homepage: https://ambar.cloud/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: search, search-engine, search-in-text, self-hosted, ocr, pdf, ambar, ambar-search
Archived: true
Last push: 2021-08-26T08:29:28+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3565, "days_push": 1833, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1943, forks 368 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:57.580358+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: search-engine, ocr, pdf, web-scraping, self-hosted
- domain: files, pdf, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted
- tags: full-text-search, document-search, content-extraction, file-crawler, elasticsearch, archived-project, search, docker, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- RD17/ambar (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.580358+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:08:01.317056+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RD17/ambar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:57.580358+00:00, sha 2c3427a0ca60)
  - homepage: https://ambar.cloud/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:47:27.733400+00:00, sha c644c028de7f)
  - site_page: https://ambar.cloud/about-us (fetched 2026-08-29T10:47:27.736092+00:00, sha aab7b53d989a)
  - site_page: https://docs.ambar.cloud (fetched 2026-08-29T10:47:27.737982+00:00, sha 72b8ede80263)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.