Building Your Own Generative Search Engine for Local Files Using Open-Source Models 🧐📂

Author(s): Anoop Maurya

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Alright, fellow nerds! Ever had that feeling where your brain is like a chaotic library of random PDFs, Word docs, and those old PowerPoint presentations from a project you barely remember? And you’re thinking, “I just need that one file… but where is it?!” 🧐

What if I told you that instead of searching through all those dusty folders manually, you could have an AI-powered engine right on your computer that could find not just the files but also answer questions about them? Yeah, we’re talking about a Generative Search Engine for Local Files — powered by nerdy tech like FAISS, sentence transformers, and the magic of open-source models.

I built this, so you don’t have to memorize where every file is, and can still feel like a genius when you retrieve the info you need in seconds. Let’s dive into how this works!

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