Fess

Open-source, self-hosted enterprise search server built on OpenSearch.

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An open-source, self-hosted enterprise search server built on OpenSearch that provides full-text search across web, file, and database sources without relying on a SaaS vendor. It offers browser-based setup with crawling and semantic search features to reduce the deep search-engine expertise typically needed by IT teams and enterprise environments.

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