No, it answers questions from the documents you provide. Off the shelf local LLMs don't do this by default. You need a RAG stack on top of it or fine tune with your own content.
> Are LLM tools better or worse than e.g. meilisearch or elasticsearch for searching with snippets over a set of document resources?
> How does search compare to generating things with citations?
pdfGPT: https://github.com/bhaskatripathi/pdfGPT :
> PDF GPT allows you to chat with the contents of your PDF file by using GPT capabilities.
GH "pdfgpt" topic: https://github.com/topics/pdfgpt
knowledge_gpt: https://github.com/mmz-001/knowledge_gpt
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112014 : paperai
neuml/paperai: https://github.com/neuml/paperai :
> Semantic search and workflows for medical/scientific papers
RAG: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38370452
Google Desktop (2004-2011): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Desktop :
> Google Desktop was a computer program with desktop search capabilities, created by Google for Linux, Apple Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows systems. It allowed text searches of a user's email messages, computer files, music, photos, chats, Web pages viewed, and the ability to display "Google Gadgets" on the user's desktop in a Sidebar
GNOME/tracker-miners: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners
src/miners/fs: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/-/tree/master/...
SPARQL + SQLite: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/tracker-miners/-/blob/master/...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355385 : LocalAI, braintrust-proxy; promptfoo, chainforge, mixtral
Absolutely worse, LLM are not made for it at all.