Overview
Open-source, self-hosted enterprise & site search server built on OpenSearch. Crawls web / file / DB / cloud sources, 20+ languages, REST API, and AI/RAG & semantic search. Apache. Documented capabilities include Full-text search with faceting, sorting, and search suggestions; Crawlers for web sites, file systems, and data stores (databases, cloud storage, and SaaS); Support for many document formats, including Microsoft Office, PDF, and archives.
What it does
- Full-text search with faceting, sorting, and search suggestions
- Crawlers for web sites, file systems, and data stores (databases, cloud storage, and SaaS)
- Support for many document formats, including Microsoft Office, PDF, and archives
- Browser-based administration UI and a REST API
- Role- and permission-based filtering of search results
- Single sign-on with LDAP, OpenID Connect, SAML, SPNEGO, and Microsoft Entra ID
Capability source: Project documentation
How you run it
fess runs on infrastructure you manage.
Documented deployment options: Docker.