Managed documents.
I have literally millions if not somewhere in billions documents (images, PDFs, DOCXs, text and org files, etc) saved in various locations (phone, sd cards, usbs, laptops, desktops, dropbox, google drive, etc). I vaguely recall the important or most used ones, but the others are ??? and I’d like to change that. I want to be able to search up something by either what I remember about the document or ‘facts’ about the document.
Managed documents best describes what I want simply.
Expanding on the facts mentioned in The Problem, these facts include what the document represents (eg image of scenery vs food), how closely related the document is to another document (perhaps I have a duplicate? or maybe I took similar images and would like to view them together?), when the document was created vs modified vs uploaded, words in the documents (text files may be easy but images should be OCR’d), etc.
I should also be able to tag and add descriptions to the documents. The search functionality should be powerful but intuitive enough that a nontechnical person can easily use it.
It should also be possible to download the image or make it public. Once made public, it should be possible to add an alias to the link as well as filename and selectively decide which stats to show with sane defaults.
This project is also meant to utilize the filesystem and the code should be run locally (besides perhaps a website or app frontend). Perhaps in the future it might be integrated with cloud services, but my goal is just personal use and learning moreso than putting building blocks together.
I imagine most people likely have a vast number of documents. A common example may be saving memes. When you save a meme to your phone, it’s probably a good meme (maybe not). But the point is, if you re-encounter the meme, you might think it’s neat once again and save it, and now you’ve ended up with duplicates.
Most modern apps and phones are smart enough to detect this, but usually to the extent of nearly exact. Some phones are capable of grouping images as well, but it’s not quite the grouping I’d like 😛
Or maybe, it’s been a few months and you vaguely recall text in it, but can’t seem to find it for when it’s relevant in the moment 😦 Sure would be helpful to be able to search 👀
Pretty relatable user, but it’s important to note this project is meant to be generalized to all documents.
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None of this code should be used as a dependency. This project should be used as is or with a fork because code will likely be ripped out into separate and sensible packages as the project grows. Also, things will likely get renamed… a lot.
This project is also a learning experience since graphs, sets, ocr, ml, image processing, and other buzzwords aren’t my expertise… yet 😏.
This whole thing is a WIP
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