Mirusan

A PDF collection reader with built-in full text search engine

Written in Python / Electron / Elm / Javascript

Features

• Simple UI

• Local database (You have controll 100% of your data)

• Easy installation (No need to install external databases)

• Multiplatform (Linux, Mac, Windows)

Installation

Prerequisites

• Git

• Node.js

• python3

Instructions

git clone https://github.com/mknz/mirusan.git

cd ./mirusan
cd ./search
pip install -r requirements.txt

cd ../electron
npm install
npm run compile

npm start

Language support

Mirusan automatically detects input language using Google's language-detection. Tokenizer or analyzer for indexing is chosen according to the detected language.

For following languages, Whoosh's built-in LanguageAnalayzer or StandardAnalyzer (for English) is used.

(though currently it does not work properly for Arabic.)

Arabic
Danish
Dutch
English
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Norwegian
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

For other languages, N-gram tokenizer (minsize=1, maxsize=2) is used.

License

GPLv3

Acknowledgements

Whoosh (Pure Python search engine library)

pdf.js

Electron

Photon

Elm

elm-electron