So I had this pile of scanned PDFs (insurance, car stuff, doctor letters…) all named like scan_0043.pdf, and finding anything was a nightmare. I looked at Paperless-ngx, which is genuinely great, but I didn't really want to run Docker and a server at home just for my own paperwork. So I built a smaller thing for myself and figured I might as well put it out there. It's called YOW. You throw your PDFs in, it OCRs them locally, and then you can just search them, both the title and the actual text inside the scan. Nothing leaves your computer, no cloud, no account, no server. You literally double-click to start it. It also auto-sorts new scans into folders and has the usual stuff: search, favorites, a trash, dark mode, and in-app reminders for documents that expire (they pop up on the

  • 情报分类：项目价值、技术价值
  • 命中依据：本地OCR搜索工具，实用且有隐私亮点
  • 来源：Reddit · SideProject
  • 原作者：/u/ActNo809 https://www.reddit.com/user/ActNo809
  • 发布时间：2026/9/10 23:03:03