I recently got a call from a friend who has a library of thousands of PDF documents. He wanted to know there was a such thing as a personal search engine that could index his library of documents, and allow full text search inside of them.

I have a giant document library too, including PDF documents, Office documents, source code, email and so on. I decided I needed one too, and it should be based on Elastic Search.

The net result of the weekends work is "kSearch", a personal search engine. kSearch include a threaded file system indexer, automatic maintainence of the search index as the file system changes, and a web search UI.

You can see screen shots and source code on the github project.