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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Paperless is great. But it does not highlight the search text. The android app paperless mobile does. Another option could be zotero. It is meant for sientific papers but very powerful in handling large PDF collections. Hard to completly selfhost. But using WebDAV as storage is straightforward. Good look, let us know where you land.

[–] IlIllIIIllIlIlIIlI 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm using it with ocr and it does highlight the search text and scrolls to it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

U r right, it does highlight in the pdf. It did not on mobile for me.