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Feature Request: ambar.cloud Search integration

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Description

Hi there! Thanks for your great work on this Addon!

Unfortunally the search is very inaccurate. For example, in my company we have documents with customer IDs like P#9234v which are added to the paper with a label sticker and get scanned after that with OCR as PDF. The Fulltext Search in nextcloud gets confused with this and find nothing. I also had a look into the elasticsearch server itself with the tool Dejavu and tried to find the id there - no success.

after some googleing i found the tool ambar.cloud. I made a little proof of concet setup with installing ambar cloud and give it the data source dir as webdav mountpoint on the machine. the search results are amazing! I wish this quality of search results were built in to nextcloud! :)

I'm not a developer, just a linux admin - but maybe someone has the mood and time to have a look to ambar.cloud and find a way to integrate it with nextcloud? that would be fantastic! :)

For now my workaround is an ambar.cloud instance for my colleagues - but its not very handy but good for now :)

Best regards from Berlin!

Marcus / DeltaLima

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The issue names no repository files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the existing full-text search and Elasticsearch integration, then compare its behavior with the reported ambar.cloud results and define a concrete integration scope and acceptance criteria.

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Assessment

Tech stack
elasticsearch, php
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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