✨ Features Overview

Indexly helps researchers and power users search Word, PDF, and text documents locally. Fast, offline, with tagging and FTS5.

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Indexly is a lightweight, modular document indexing + search engine. Here’s the latest overview:

Search

Full-text search (FTS5) across content and metadata
Boolean operators: AND, OR, NOT, NEAR
Phrase search with quotes search "term"
Fuzzy search support via SQLite extensions
Smart ranking and scoring

Tag Detection

Extracts custom tags from document content
Regex-based virtual tag matcher (fts_core.py)
Works with .pdf, .docx, .eml, .msg, .txt, .md, .xlsx
CLI previews via tag list command

Caching System

Smart result caching for repeat searches
Auto refresh if documents change
Control via --no-cache

CSV Analyzer

Auto-detects delimiters
Computes mean, median, stddev, IQR
Value counts for categorical data
Outputs in Markdown or TXT
Cleaning CSV Data →
Analyze CSV →

Supported Formats

.pdf, .docx, .xlsx, .csv, .msg, .eml, .md, .txt, .json, .xml, .epub, .pptx, .odt, HTML, JS, CSS, Python, Logs, images (.jpg, .png, .tiff, .bmp)

CLI & Extensibility

Modular CLI in cli_utils.py
Scriptable, clear logging system
Fully open-source

Metadata Indexing

Extracts title, author, subject, dates
PDF and Office metadata
Image EXIF metadata

Developer Focus

Extend tag_fields in fts_core.py
Modify filetype_utils.py to support new formats

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