Use text embeddings for more general searching?

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Invariant
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Use text embeddings for more general searching?

Post by Invariant »

Might be an interesting feature and would likely be a relatively simple feature to add. E.g., the use of local or remote embedding evaluation. E.g.,llama or Ollama.

I'm mainly thinking of it working on filenames and ideally books and text documents like pdfs, epubs, and txt. Something that would actually be meaningful to search with and even to get book information online from the filename.

E.g., a setting where one could add folders which can be indexed in this way and then a special search token to use. To search by embedding.

"Text embeddings can be used to search by converting words, sentences, or documents into high-dimensional numerical vectors that capture their meanings. This allows a search system to measure the similarity between a query and documents, enabling it to return results based on semantic meaning rather than just exact".
user123
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Re: Use text embeddings for more general searching?

Post by user123 »

Bump

Embedding has become more accessible and lightweight now:
https://huggingface.co/google/embeddinggemma-2
void
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Re: Use text embeddings for more general searching?

Post by void »

See if something exists for Windows Explorer with third party property handlers.
You'll be able to access the same properties as Windows Explorer in Everything.

I have on my TODO list to add support for property handlers via plugins.
Thank you for the suggestions