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Glimpse

🔍 Glimpse

Your Offline Multimodal Intelligence Engine

Transform scattered documents, images, and audio into a unified, intelligent, and private knowledge base you can chat with.

MIT License Python 3.9+ Electron 100% Offline Cross Platform

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📖 The Problem

In today's information-rich environment, critical knowledge is fragmented across different formats:

  • 📄 Important reports buried in PDFs
  • 📊 Key data locked in screenshots
  • 🎙️ Context hidden in audio recordings
  • 📝 Notes scattered across text files

Traditional search is limited to keyword matching, making it time-consuming and inefficient to extract meaningful insights. Worse yet, most AI solutions require cloud connectivity and force you to upload sensitive data to third-party servers.

✨ The Solution

Glimpse brings the power of modern RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) directly to your desktop. It runs completely on your machine, ensuring your data remains private while enabling intelligent semantic search and conversational AI across all your documents.

🌟 Key Features

🔒 Privacy First

  • 100% Offline Operation
  • All AI models run locally
  • Zero cloud dependencies
  • Your data never leaves your machine

🧠 Intelligent Understanding

  • Multimodal Ingestion: PDFs, DOCX, TXT, images
  • Smart Image Recognition: OCR-powered text extraction
  • Semantic Search: Find connections, not just keywords
  • Conversational Interface: Natural language queries

🖥️ Cross-Platform

  • Windows support
  • macOS support
  • Linux support
  • Single unified application

⚡ Performance

  • Local vector database
  • Persistent storage
  • Fast semantic retrieval
  • Efficient model quantization

🛠️ Tech Stack

Component Technology Purpose
🖼️ Desktop Framework Electron Cross-platform app shell
🎨 UI Prototype Gradio Rapid Python-native interface
🐍 Backend Python Core AI processing
💾 Vector Store ChromaDB Local embeddings storage
🤖 LLM TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat (GGUF) Text generation
🔤 Embeddings all-MiniLM-L6-v2 Semantic understanding
👁️ OCR EasyOCR Image text extraction
🎤 Speech-to-Text Vosk Audio transcription

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🎯 Use Cases

📚 Research & Academia
  → Index papers, notes, and annotations
  → Ask questions across your entire research library

💼 Business Intelligence  
  → Search through reports, presentations, and meeting transcripts
  → Extract insights from scattered business documents

🏥 Healthcare & Legal
  → Maintain private, searchable patient or case files
  → Never worry about HIPAA or data compliance

🎓 Personal Knowledge Management
  → Build your second brain
  → Connect ideas across all your notes and documents

🗺️ Roadmap

Near Term

  • 🎨 Replace Gradio with custom React frontend
  • 👤 User authentication system
  • 🧠 Multi-brain management with SQLite
  • 🎵 Audio file support (MP3, WAV, FLAC)

Future Vision

  • 📦 One-click installers (Electron Builder)
  • 🔌 Plugin system for custom data sources
  • 📊 Visual knowledge graph explorer
  • 🌐 Optional self-hosted sync between devices
  • 🎯 Fine-tuning on your personal data
  • 📱 Mobile companion apps

💡 Philosophy

Glimpse is built on three core principles:

  1. Privacy is Non-Negotiable: Your data is yours. Period.
  2. Intelligence Should Be Accessible: Powerful AI shouldn't require cloud infrastructure
  3. Knowledge Should Be Connected: Break down silos between formats and files

Built with ❤️ for privacy-conscious knowledge workers

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