PDF Notes Searching

PDF and OCR based notes searching. Index your notes and search for keywords.

• PDF conversion to images
• OCR on images to texts
• Index texts (hierarchical! PDF-sum and individual images)
• Search! view PDF or view images found

Quick Start

• pip install -r requirements.txt
• Install tesseract per instruction on this (TODO: make UI to supply local PDF lib path)
  • modify TESSERACT_PATH in ocr.py for now
• Prepare 'database':
  • TODO: make UI
  • For now:
    • in ocr.py, modify convert_pdf_in_directory("your folder full of PDF notes", "a tag") and run
    • run whoosh_search.py to build index for all data by default
• Web UI: streamlit run .\notes_search.py
  • go to http://localhost:8501 if not already

TO-DO:

• add settings page to specify location of PDF reading library
• add a page to allow adding notes to index through UI
• fuzzy search
• multi-select tags to search in