Search

Find anything you can see. Nothing you can’t.

Foldr indexes the contents of every connected backend, runs OCR on scans and images, and filters results by what each user is allowed to open. Match on keywords or on meaning; either way, a query is one box, regardless of how the files are stored.

New in Foldr

Can’t remember the exact words? Search by what you meant.

We index what a document is about, not just the words on the page. So you can ask the way you’d ask a colleague (“how do we cut delivery costs”, “the contract that auto-renews”) and the right files come back even when they never use those words.

  • It runs alongside keyword search, not instead of it. Every query goes two ways at once: the keyword index you already rely on, and a model that matches on meaning. We fuse the two rankings, so you keep exact-match precision and pick up the fuzzier, concept-level hits as well. (Hand it a precise, structured query and it leaves the meaning-matching out of it, because there’s no sense second-guessing an exact search.)
  • The permissions don’t change. A meaning-matched hit obeys the same rules as everything else in Foldr, so someone only ever sees the files they’re allowed to open.
  • Switched on per share, with the model you choose. Embeddings run through any OpenAI-compatible provider, and on the self-hosted appliance you can keep a local model, so nothing leaves your network.
how can we cut delivery costs? Enter
Results · keyword + meaning
  • freight-consolidation-memo.pdf SharePoint meaning …renegotiate carrier rates and consolidate LTL shipments to lower outbound logistics spend…
  • Q3-logistics-review.docx OneDrive meaning …last-mile expenses dropped sharply after switching couriers in the north region…
  • supplier-haulage-terms.pdf S3 meaning …volume discount tiers on bulk haulage above 20 pallets per drop…
None of these repeat the words “cut”, “delivery” or “costs”, yet each one is what you were after.
Features

A real search index, not a filename grep.

Content extraction is done up front by a crawler that watches every connected backend. Hits return in milliseconds, with snippets and the page they came from.

Full-text across every backend

One query hits SMB, OneDrive, SharePoint, Drive, S3, Box, Dropbox, Teams. Results come back ranked, snippeted, and permission-filtered.

OCR for scans and image-only docs

Text-based PDFs are read directly, no OCR needed. Scans, photos and image-only PDFs fall back to OCR: AWS Textract or Google Document AI on either deployment, plus Tesseract on the self-hosted appliance.

ACL-aware results

A user only sees hits they can actually open. Foldr indexes the source ACLs alongside the content and filters every query against the user’s group memberships; permission changes flow through on the next crawl pass.

Custom field filters

Search by supplier, status, project code, anything you’ve tagged with a custom field. Combine with full-text in a single query.

Barcode lookup

Captur indexes barcodes alongside text. Scan a packing slip, jump straight to the matching purchase order.

Date, type, size, location

Filter by modified-this-quarter, only PDFs, only over 10MB, only inside the Finance share. Stack filters as you go.

Tabular views

Reconstruct structured data from unstructured documents.

Captur pulls custom fields out of every document. Foldr’s tabular views turn that field data back into a spreadsheet you can sort, filter, pivot and export. A folder of PDFs becomes a queryable dataset, no one re-keying anything.

Table view per share

One row per file, one column per custom field. Sort, filter, scan a hundred documents at a glance.

Multi-value fields

A field can hold a list: line items on an invoice, parties on a contract, dates on a court bundle. Each value is searchable in its own right.

Cross-document pivot

Roll up multi-value fields across an entire share into a single flat table. Three hundred POs become three thousand line items, ready to slice and total.

CSV export

Push the tabular view straight to CSV for the spreadsheet, BI tool, or accounting system that already knows how to consume it.

Why ACL-aware matters

Most search engines leak.

The default behaviour of a corporate search index is to show every user every hit and let the storage layer block the open. That’s a leak: filenames, snippets and document IDs are visible even when the file isn’t. Foldr asks the source storage what each user is allowed to see, on every query, before the snippet is rendered.

Same query, every surface

Grace and Captur read the same index.

Grace answers questions about your files using the same index, scoped to the same permissions. Captur’s extracted fields land in the index too, so structured data and document text are queryable from a single bar.

Curious whether Foldr would fit?

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