Seachmonkey

Searchmonkey is a fast local desktop search engine for developers, power users, and researchers that makes files instantly searchable across code, PDFs, images, documents, and archives.

Built as a modern cross-platform desktop app, Searchmonkey combines high-speed indexing with a plugin architecture that allows advanced content extraction and search workflows. Current plugins include PDF extraction and OCR for searchable image text using Tesseract.

Key features:

Lightning-fast local file search powered by ripgrep
Full-text search across PDFs, images, and documents
OCR plugin for searchable screenshots, scans, and photos
Extensible plugin system with downloadable plugins
Cross-platform support for macOS, Windows, and Linux
Privacy-focused local-first architecture
Advanced filtering, regex, presets, and result previews
Native desktop UX built for large file collections

Target market:

Developers
Technical users
Researchers
Knowledge workers
Digital archivists
IT professionals

Growth potential:
Searchmonkey is evolving into a modular local search and indexing platform with a commercial plugin ecosystem, entitlement management, and advanced content-processing workflows.