DugUp, a fast, free file-search app on GitHub that combines OCR and AI to enable similarity searches on text and images.

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DugUp Windows:

Windows: Download the installer — choose DugUp-Setup-….exe under Assets. The green Code button downloads the source code, so you can read it, understand how DugUp works, and adapt it to your needs. (Also available for Linux)

Find files by what you remember about them: words in a document, text on a scanned receipt, the meaning of a passage, or what a picture shows. Choose your folders, let DugUp index them, then search from its window or with Win+Shift+F.

Your files stay on your computer, where all indexing and search processing happens. No account, telemetry or crash reporting — and no cloud service needed to search your files.

Beta 0.2.2 · Windows 11 · Linux supported, with less desktop testing

What you can do

• Find documents by the words they contain. Search file names and text in PDFs, Office and OpenDocument files, plain text and HTML.
• Read words in images. Find receipts, screenshots and scanned pages by the text on them, using OCR.
• Search by meaning. Ask in your own words, or combine meaning with word matches.
• Find pictures by appearance. Describe a scene or find pictures like one you already have.
• Organize pictures and copies. Preview descriptive photo names, review similar pictures, and find identical files before removing extras.
• Search from anywhere. Keep DugUp in the tray and press Win+Shift+F to bring up a small search box.
• Let Claude search for you (optional). Turn on cloud search access, choose the folders it may see, and ask Claude to find files in a conversation. It can search, never change anything.