achoz

like a web search, but for your personal files. demo here

what it will do is just normalize your all documents, and later it will be easy to search. Like suppose you read something fantastic in any of your pdf file, but after sometime you forgot the name of that pdf. Here web search may not help you but achoz surely gonna help you to find that file.

Story

cregox have a lot of data. files, emails, messages, web links, web content, etc. they also are of different kinds; text, video, audio, apps, etc. when trying to find something they do remember to be there, sometimes it gets impossible! the goal of achoz is making cregox self-data-searching-life not only easier, but enable a new world of possibilities, in which they don’t have to worry anymore how to store data for themselves (as long as it’s stored with open and free standards).

more details at http://ahoxus.org/achoz

Installation

As of now achoz supports linux 64 bit architecure only.

Requirement.

• npm
• nodejs
• poppler-utils
• antiword

you need to install typesense server as well.

Install all requirements for debian based distro like ubuntu, linux-mint etc with the following command.

wget https://dl.typesense.org/releases/0.22.1/typesense-server-0.22.1-amd64.deb
sudo apt install nodejs poppler-utils antiword ./typesense-server-0.22.1-amd64.deb

Once done with with system requirement. install achoz with npm.

npm install -g achoz

use sudo if you are not root.

Usage

Lets suppose you want to make your all file and directories in your home directory searchable. we call it normalize. Just follow four steps and boom.

Step 1: Add dir in list.

achoz add ~/

Step 2: Lets invoke crawler to crawl it.

achoz crawl

Step 3: Now start achoz engine.

achoz engine

if it runs successfully, open another terminal for next step. let it run. Incase it reporting error like "Failed to start peering service" Try to disable typesense service via your init system, most probably systemctl. systemctl stop typesense-server.service and systemctl disable typesense-server.service also see this issue

Step 4: Now index all crawled file.

achoz index

Boom. you have normalize your home directory. It means you can search any documents, pdf, music, videos, and everthing that was there. Now browse and search string at http://localhost:9097

If you face issues in any of above steps, feel free to report it here