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Re:Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:21AM (#47701183)
I'm still working on my PDF search engine as an offline desktop application. It's at https://www.docgoblin.com/ if you're interrested.

No AI at all just plain old Java, JavaFX, Lucene and enough code to bring them together. I would love to get feedback if you try it!

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @02:52PM (#46579270)
Things are going slow, but it is a passion project so it's ok :) A few people have bought a licence and it seems most people who try the app are very happy with it so I'm happy too.

The app is entirely in Java, with javaFX for the UI and Lucene for the search engine. To read and render PDFs I use PDFium.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026) on Sunday January 11, 2026 @01:23PM (#46578144)
I'm still working on my PDF search engine for desktop: https://www.docgoblin.com/ I'm implementing a bookmark utility right now and hope to add support multiple E-books format in the near future.

Show HN: DocGoblin – A Super Fast Desktop Search Engine for Your PDFs

https://www.docgoblin.com/

Hello everyone,I'm happy to show you my project and would love to get some feedback on it!DocGoblin is a desktop search engine designed to handle large collections of PDFs. It indexes your documents and allows you to perform fast and accurate searches for specific terms, phrases, or sections across your entire library in less than a second.For more details on the technologies : * JavaFX for...

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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Monday February 24, 2025 @04:15AM (#43157399)
I am still working on Docgoblin (https://docgoblin.com) a Pdf search engine software based on Lucene, pdfium and JavaFX. The app is super fast and users are happy with it. I'm in the process of adding plain text files support and making the website look nicer.

Show HN: DocGoblin – A Desktop Search Engine for Your PDFs

https://www.docgoblin.com/

DocGoblin is a passion project I've been working on for over a year. It's a desktop application, written in Java with JavaFX for the interface and Lucene powering the search engine. For PDF rendering, I’m using PDFium. This is my first project with a commercial release, and I’d greatly appreciate any feedback the HN community can provide :)".

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Re:This Video Was Uploaded Through a Fishing Line (Tin Can Phone) on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:24AM (#41608718)
I am not the author.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @05:41AM (#41345956)
I'm currently working on a PDF search engine that will index and then search through several thousand pdfs. As a tabletop role-player and former researcher, I've always wanted a simple tool to do this, and I hope I won't be the only one to benefit from it. This is my first project of this scale and I hope to be able to show it here soon.

On the technical side, it's a desktop application coded entirely in java with a javaFX interface. No AI or online data uploads, just the Lucene search engine and PDFium for PDF rendering.

Here is a very short demo : https://youtu.be/CGo9JRUByGA