imdavidsantiago 9 days ago

As far as I know, no one has fully implemented full-text search directly over Anna's Archive. Technically it’s feasible with tools like Meilisearch, Elasticsearch, or Lucene, but the main challenges are:

    Converting all documents (PDFs, EPUBs, etc.) to clean plaintext.

    Indexing at scale efficiently.

    Managing potential legal issues.
Z-Library does something similar, but it’s smaller in scope and doesn't integrate AA’s full catalog.

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bendangelo 9 days ago

I’ve done something like this before. Meilisearch will not be viable, because it indexes very slow and it takes up a lot of space.

In my experience only Tantivy can index this much data. Check out Lnx.

sam_lowry_ 8 days ago

Lucene would fo fine as well, I guess. As much as I like the author of Tantivy, it is a toy compared to Lucene.

_ache_ 8 days ago

To manage the legal issues, you just have to put AI on the search. "AI search".