Indexly Usage Guide

A complete usage guide for Indexly. Discover installation steps, Windows Terminal setup, indexing, search, tagging, filtering, and exporting results in PDF, Markdown, or text formats.
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Installation

You can install Indexly directly from PyPI:

pip install indexly

Or install all dependencies from the requirements file:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Or manually:

pip install nltk pymupdf pytesseract pillow python-docx openpyxl rapidfuzz fpdf2 reportlab \
beautifulsoup4 extract_msg eml-parser PyPDF2 watchdog colorama

Windows Terminal Setup

See Customizing Windows Terminal

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Basic Workflow 

flowchart LR
A[Index files 📂] --> B[Search 🔍]
B --> C[Tag & Filter 🏷️]
C --> D[Export 🧾]

Indexing 

indexly index '/path/to/folder'

Sample indexing

Searching 

indexly search "term"
indexly regex "pattern"

Sample Search

Exporting

The formats; .txt, .json and pdf are supported during export.

indexly search "inventory" --export-format pdf --output result.pdf
indexly search "inventory" --export-format txt --output result.txt
indexly search "inventory" --export-format json --output result.json