Open Semantic Search Guide

Overview

Open Semantic Search is a self-hosted search and text mining platform that combines full-text search (Apache Solr) with semantic analysis — entity extraction, named entity recognition, text classification, and knowledge graph building. Process and search across documents (PDF, DOCX, emails) with faceted navigation and visual analytics. Ideal for researchers needing private, on-premise document search over large paper collections.

Installation

# Docker deployment (recommended)
git clone https://github.com/opensemanticsearch/open-semantic-search.git
cd open-semantic-search
docker-compose up -d

# Access web UI at http://localhost:8080
# Admin panel at http://localhost:8080/admin

Architecture