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Ambar: Simple Document Archive
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What is Ambar
Ambar is a simple document archive with automated crawling, OCR, deduplication and ultra-fast full-text search. Imagine having billion of files in different formats like xls, doc, txt, pdf, ppt, etc..., in any encoding. Ambar securely stores them and gives you an ability to search through their content and metadata in milliseconds. It is very lightweight, simple and intuitive, but yet very fast and powerful in terms of data amount and scaling. All the rocket-science is hidden behind the simple UI.
Features
Ambar features overview (Vimeo)
- Full-text Search Tutorial: Mastering Ambar Search Queries
- Files Crawling (SMB, FTP, Mail) Tutorial: Crawling Your Own Shared Folders
- Scheduled Crawling
- Dropbox Integration Tutorial: How to Search Through Your Dropbox Files Content
- Advanced OCR
- Files Deduplication
- Secure Storage
- Real-Time Statistics
- Web UI
- REST API
Cloud
It's full-featured latest Ambar, hosted on our servers. All the accounts and data is secured and carefully stored. You can connect Ambar directly to your Dropbox account and enjoy Ambar powerful search over your Dropbox. Trying Ambar Cloud is a perfect way to get the taste what Ambar is.
- Signup
- That's it!
Basic Ambar Cloud Account gives you space to store up to 2000 documents. To store more files you can upgrade to Pro version.
Hosting Ambar on Your Own Servers
Self-Hosted Ambar can be installed as a set of Docker images. Community Edition is available for free. It's a tiny version of Enterprise Edition with limited number of pipelines and crawlers and disabled authentication, though preserving full functionality. Also you can request a trial for Enterprise Edition, drop us an email on hello@ambar.cloud
Docker images can be found on Docker Hub
How it Works
- Under the Hood
- REST API Documentation
- Source Code is freely available under Fair Source License 1. (Frontend, Crawler, ElasticSearch, Rabbit, Mongo, Installer)
FAQ
Is it open-source?
Yes, we publish almost all our modules on GitHub under Fair Source License 1
Is it free?
Yes, Community Edition is forever free. We will NOT charge a penny from you to use it. Basic cloud account is forever free too.
Does it perform OCR?
Yes, it perform OCR on images (jpg, tiff, bmp, etc) and PDF's. OCR is perfomed by well-known open-source library Tesseract. We tune it to achieve best perfomance and quality on scanned documents.
Does it support tagging?
Nope, we working on it. As a workaround you can use folders hierarchy as a set of tags.
What about searching in PDF?
Yes, it can search through any PDF, even badly encoded or with scans inside. We did our best to make search over any kind of document smooth.
I miss XXX language analyzer. Can you add it?
Yes, please create an issue
When the localization will be ready?
We're working on it. Be patient.
What maximum file size can it handle?
It's limited by amount of RAM on your machine, typically 500MB. It's very good result, as default document managment systems offer 40MB maximum file size to be processed.
Can anyone else see my documents?
Nope, check our Privacy Policy.
I have a problem what should I do?
Submit an issue or chat with us on https://ambar.cloud