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I’m looking for a self hosted solution to this problem:

I want to create a full text search index from a collection of PDF manuals (text, not images, I don’t care about OCR here). There is a UI to search for text matches in documents, and clicking a search hit opens the PDF scrolled to where the search hit is (bonus points if the search hit is hilighted)

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[–] jflesch@lemmy.kwain.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Paperwork seems to fit most of the bill except for one thing: it won't scroll to where the search hit is (but it will highlight the matching keywords).

Just beware Paperwork won't just create an index. It'll organize the PDF its own way in its own work directory.

(full disclosure: I'm its main dev)

[–] Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does Paperwork compare to Paperless?

[–] jflesch@lemmy.kwain.net 3 points 1 year ago

Paperless is a web application. Paperwork is a desktop application.

[–] colebrodine@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you guys have a docker image or something that I could put on my homelab server?

[–] jflesch@lemmy.kwain.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think there is some confusion here.

Paperwork is a desktop application, not a web application. (eh, self-hosting doesn't necessarily always imply web applications ! :). I for one use Nextcloud and nextcloud-desktop to keep my Paperwork work directories in sync on all my computers.