yjid/kensaku
Search inside documents, code, and even screenshots - instantly and locally. A free, open-source file launcher with OCR, semantic search, and MCP agent access.
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Kensaku 検索 Fast, light, and efficient. Find anything on your computer. Search 100,000 file names in about a millisecond, using roughly 12 MB of memory. Search inside documents, images, and code too. Nothing leaves your machine. Install · Why Kensaku · Features · Performance · MCP · Docs · Contribute You don't remember the filename. You remember what was in it. Type what you remember. Kensaku searches names, text inside files, and meaning, and shows the match with the words highlighted. Open it with Enter. Filename tools are everywhere. Reading inside your files — locally, instantly, and for free — is not. Spotlight and Raycast are excellent but macOS-only; Alfred's content search and AI are paid tiers. Kensaku is one app, three platforms, free and MIT-licensed. Three things worth trying on day one: Fast Finds more higher-quality Indra engine (deskew, multi-script recognition, 27 MB pack downloaded on demand) and classic…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- Find it the way you remember it
- What Kensaku does that the others don't
- Features
- The query language
- Install
- Build from source
- Connect AI agents (MCP)
- Performance
- Privacy and security
- Status
- What might come next
- Contributing
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What this repository does
Search inside documents, code, and even screenshots - instantly and locally. A free, open-source file launcher with OCR, semantic search, and MCP agent access.
Repository facts
- Owner
- yjid
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 335
- Forks
- 24
- Open issues + pull requests
- 10
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- master
- Created
- 2026-10-24T21:00:26.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-10-30T05:08:22.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agents, desktop, desktop-search, file-search, full-text-search, launcher, local-first, mcp, ocr, open-source, privacy, rust, search, semantic-search, tauri, windows
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