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		abdullahkhalids on May 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Perplexica: Open-source Perplexity alternative What would be even better, if it could also search my local repository of ebooks and pdfs. Most of the stuff I do, needs serious answers from books or papers I have already selected. Random webpages on the web don't cut it. Citing the book section/page/paragraph would be magic.

sc077y on May 29, 2024 | [–]

This is 100 percent doable. Building something like this at scale might be a pain but locally it's fairly easy.

applied_heat on May 25, 2024 | [–]

I used to use qiqqa for local full text search of pdf library, I think the world has moved on to mendeley, and paperless(-ng) I believe performs the same function

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