sist2app/sist2
Lightning-fast file system indexer and search tool observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
99/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 99
- 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: 0
- age_days: 2531
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 10
Adoption not part of the score
1289 stars · 78 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
sist2 is a fast, multi-threaded file system indexer that extracts text, metadata, and thumbnails from common file types, with OCR support via tesseract and recursive scanning inside archives. It indexes into Elasticsearch or a zero-install SQLite backend and ships a mobile-friendly web interface for searching, tagging, and visualizing disk usage.
Use cases
- search across all files on my disk from a web interface
- build a full-text index of a directory of documents
- self-hosted file search engine for a NAS or server
- make scanned PDFs searchable with OCR
- find text inside documents buried in zip archives
- browse file metadata, tags, and disk usage visually
- incrementally re-index a large changing file tree
When to choose
- you want fast, low-memory indexing of large file trees with incremental rescans
- you need text extraction, thumbnails, and OCR for mixed document formats
- you want a friendly web UI for searching and tagging local files instead of raw grep/find
- you prefer a no-dependency SQLite backend or already run Elasticsearch
- you want to schedule and manage scan jobs through a Docker-deployed admin panel
When to avoid
- you only need quick one-off grep-like searches without maintaining an index
- you need enterprise-grade search cluster features, security, or multi-tenancy beyond what sist2 provides
- you are uncomfortable with a project the author flags as in early development, where formats and APIs may change
- your files live mostly in cloud services rather than a local or mounted file system
Facets
application · maturity active
search-engine parser ocr file-system files self-hosted developer-tools windows self-hosted cli file-indexer full-text-search elasticsearch sqlite desktop-search thumbnails incremental-scanning tesseract archive-recursion disk-usage-visualization web-ui vuejs search linux macos docker web-server
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/sist2app/sist2 · fetched 2026-08-28 · 3d0de2d2782a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| sist2app/sist2 | main | 99 |
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