Introducing BeyondPDF, a smart, free, fully-local (wifi-less) PDF search app for MacOS. "Free" has always connoted to "It's free but we will steal your data"... not anymore.
Whats wrong with MacOS's Preview? It's great... but I NEED smart/semantic search. Searching for words is tedious but searching for ideas is wayy easier.
I converted a light embedding model from
@huggingface to CoreML and used zero libraries (vectordb tokenizer is all raw code)... the installer itself is 42mb lol incl. the ML model, so its light and has a reasonable footprint.
It's 99% perfect. My goal is to improve perf/UX with every release as more feedback rolls in. I urgently needed this myself and now, you can enjoy it too.
Available only on the app store (recommended, linked below) or as a .dmg from my website (also linked).