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New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:43:24 +0000

I just had a wild thought. Combine Hister with my RepoSearch app. Point it at a companies Internal github/gitlab and have a searchable knowledge base of your git repos.

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "Turning a pile of documents into a searchable useable knowledge base"

linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:34:42 +0000

hmmmm :)

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:34:10 +0000

I've run it on a VM with 4G ram and no GPU. It runs, But I really recommend 8G ram at least. If you have a GPU (like I do) with 4G vRAM that is ideal. Will get this in the readme. Thanks for the suggestion. I really tried to build this to minimal spec.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:22:20 +0000

I fixed this in version 0.9.1 (just released) thanks for the bug (seriously)

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:21:26 +0000

v0.9.1 is in the repo and packages have been built. It now does all of the ODT formats.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:18:55 +0000

By restricted for personal use I mean it's not networked. It's running on your system only. It's not a networked commercial product able to do SSO etc. It's not an enterprise level product.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:17:11 +0000

I went with the python libraries (pydoc and pyxls for example), because it's portable and doesn't require a big download to a users system if they don't already have it installed.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:53:37 +0000

Will have version 0.9.1 out later today to support ODF formats.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:52:54 +0000

Consider it yes, However having experience in this ... not really. For now there is a file called Decisions.md in the repo that is my "notes to self" if you will about where and what I need to do.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:50:23 +0000

I use rclone to "mount" them locally. Then it becomes searchable.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:49:37 +0000

I was building for mac on a VM install of OSX. Will take this as a bug, Thanks.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:47:40 +0000

Noted the bug.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:03:01 +0000

thankyou

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:59:10 +0000

I'm actually thinking of this for a commercial product feature. However, if you use a tool like Rclone on Windows, Linux or Mac. Mount the s3 bucket and you can then run DocuBrowse as if the s3 bucket were local.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:56:27 +0000

Yes, not supporting it is an oversight I will correct.

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:53:13 +0000

- Filling a need I personally have. - Learning how to leverage AI for real world use not just to fill up a data center. - Personal knowledge -developing skills

Pretty much in that order

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linuxrebe1 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:51:30 +0000

I creating DocuRepo as well. though not as fleshed out.

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linuxrebe1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:55:56 +0000

Let me look into this

New comment by linuxrebe1 in "GitOps in the Age of AI"

linuxrebe1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:55:11 +0000

Interesting observation. However it seems to me it uncovers an age old issue. "Works on my laptop" The real blindness I see in the process is failing to use the tools at hand to properly model production, document production etc. The change was made prior to the person making the change either bothering too, or being able to, understand what the constraints really are.

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linuxrebe1 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:37:29 +0000

I had an issue. A documents folder with over 12k objects in it. A hodgepodge of folders and sub-folders. That over time had created a mess that no amount of file movement was ever going to make it usable. I wanted: 1) To keep my data local 2) be able to filter out PII and other data 3) Be able to find and delete duplicates 4) Get short synopsis of what a document is 5) Semantic and keyword search 6) All of this kept local to me requiring no internet access and no tokens spent to train someone elses AI.

The result I call DocuBrowser and in it's current form is FOSS (GPL-3) licensed for your personal use. The UI is in your browser. The AI models used are held local and are tiny, Available for Linux(RPM,Deb, and tgz) Windows and Mac. Let me know what you think and thanks for taking the time to try it out.