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scambier/obsidian-omnisearch

A search engine that "just works" for Obsidian. Supports OCR and PDF indexing. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/scambier/obsidian-omnisearch · TypeScript · GPL-3.0 (copyleft) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

98/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 95
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 29
  • age_days: 1606
  • days_rel: 35
  • days_push: 8
  • n_releases_24m: 18

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2127 stars · 114 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Omnisearch is an Obsidian community plugin providing instant, relevance-weighted full-text search across notes, PDFs, Office documents, and images (via the Text Extractor companion plugin). It is built on MiniSearch with BM25 scoring, typo resistance, and keyboard-first workflows.

Use cases

  • search all my obsidian notes instantly
  • find text inside pdfs in my vault
  • search scanned images with ocr
  • quick switcher with better relevance ranking
  • query my vault from outside obsidian via http
  • search notes with typo tolerance
  • filter search results by file type

When to choose

  • you use Obsidian and find the built-in search too slow or imprecise
  • you need to index PDFs, Office files, or images in your vault
  • you want a keyboard-driven quick switcher with BM25 relevance scoring

When to avoid

  • you don't use Obsidian
  • you need a server-side or multi-user search engine rather than a local plugin
  • you need Chinese search without installing the additional cm-chs-patch plugin

Facets

plugin · maturity active

search-engine ocr pdf cli pdf developer-tools text-editors cross-platform obsidian obsidian-plugin minisearch full-text-search bm25 pdf-indexing typo-tolerance search desktop

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
scambier/obsidian-omnisearchmain98

For agents

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