This Free AI Tool Lets You Search Your Computer by Describing What’s Inside
In practice, a free and open-source app called DigUp lets users search files on their computer by describing what they contain instead of relying only on filenames or exact keywords.
In practice, a free and open-source app called DigUp lets users search files on their computer by describing what they contain instead of relying only on filenames or exact keywords.
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- Available for Mac, Windows, and Linux, DigUp uses Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 model to search photos, PDFs, documents, audio, videos, and, optionally, source code.
- AI Has Created Game Decompilation So Straightforward That a Community Is Shutting Down.
- It supports more than 100 languages and is available under the Apache 2.0 license.
- The 740-million-parameter model places text, images, audio, and video into the same shared space, allowing a text query to match content inside different file types.
- The app only connects to the internet to download its 865MB model once and to check for updates once per day.
Users can search phrases such as "zebra in a video, " "where they talk about sleep, " or "the clause about pets in the lease." DigUp can then open the matching video or audio at the relevant moment or take users directly to the correct PDF page.
AI Has Created Game Decompilation So Straightforward That a Community Is Shutting Down. Powered by Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2. Google DeepMind published EmbeddingGemma 2 in October 2026.
In practice, the 740-million-parameter model places text, images, audio, and video into the same shared space, allowing a text query to match content inside different file types.
It supports more than 100 languages and is available under the Apache 2.0 license. Cross-language searches additionally work, meaning an English query can find content written in Bengali, Arabic, or other backed languages.
DigUp additionally combines semantic search with exact matching for things such as names, invoice numbers and error codes. DigUp notes indexed files never leave the user's computer.
In practice, the app only connects to the internet to download its 865MB model once and to check for updates once per day. The update check can be disabled. There is no account requirement and no telemetry.
Users choose which folders DigUp can access, and it does not change, move, or upload files. New App Can Detect Mental Stress Using Your Smartphone. What DigUp Can Search.
DigUp supports common image formats, PDFs including scans, documents such as TXT, Markdown, RTF, DOCX, ODT and HTML, plus audio and video of any length.
While videos are indexed using sampled frames and their soundtracks, audio is processed in overlapping 30-second sections.
For context, the first indexing pass can take anywhere from a few minutes to a number of hours depending on the number of files and available hardware. After that, newly continued files usually become searchable within a few seconds. Stay Connected with ProPakistani.
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