paperlight
Every document on your PC, one search away. Find PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint files by name, folder or the text inside. Fast, private, read-only. Built with Tauri + Rust.
Details
- External ID
- 1389325376
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- paperlight
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3866256725595696
- Tags
- desktop-app, document-manager, document-search, file-indexer, file-search, fts5, full-text-search, launcher, open-source, pdf, productivity, react, rust, spotlight, sqlite, tauri, tauri-app, typescript, windows
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- document and PDF utility tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local desktop document search tool for pc files
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A basic Tauri desktop search app is simple, but building a fast, lightweight local background indexer that parses multiple proprietary binary document formats without high resource usage requires substantial systems engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires Tauri/Rust handling the frontend/native interface, coupled with an embedded full-text search engine (e.g., Tantivy) and local document parsers (pdf-extract, docx-rs, calamine). The primary challenge is maintaining low memory footprint and efficient CPU usage while crawling the filesystem, watching for live file updates, and handling corrupted or large documents. It requires solid systems programming and performance tuning expertise in Rust.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 284 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #99 of 285 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 321 days after the earliest competitor.
- JustDocz · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- DocTabs · ph · 2026-09-26 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Open Doc Tools · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Robinpdf · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- FlexDocu · ph · 2026-09-21 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- fizzdoc · github · 2026-09-27 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- ToolsNest · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.