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Quivr is an engine that collects content as it is published, makes it searchable within seconds, and tells you when something new matches a topic you follow. It has no screens of its own beyond a small demo: other applications use it through its API. This page is for readers who want to know what it does without reading code. Quivr is at the evaluation stage: try it, but do not run it in production yet.

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Collect content as it arrives

  • Send it content, one article at a time or in batches, as text or as files such as PDFs.
  • Let it fetch content by itself from news feeds (RSS or Atom), Microsoft 365 mailboxes or X lists, on a schedule you choose.
  • Correct or withdraw an article later. Quivr keeps every earlier version, so you can see what was published and when.
  • Nothing is lost. Once Quivr confirms it has received something, it is stored safely, even if a part of the system is down for a while. Sending the same thing twice does not create a duplicate.

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Find it again

  • Search by words or by meaning. A search for “flooding” can also find an article about “rivers bursting their banks”.
  • See where each result comes from: which article, which version and which part of it.
  • Search only what you are allowed to see. Content is grouped into collections, and each access key is limited to the collections and actions it was given.

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Follow a topic

  • Save a search as an alert, such as "electric cars" AND (battery OR charging) NOT review.
  • Or describe the topic in a sentence, such as “new rules on charging electric cars”. An outside classifier, when turned on, then also catches articles that use other words or another language.
  • Get notified each time a new article matches, at a web address set up by whoever runs Quivr, saying why it matched.
  • Hear about changes: when a matching article is corrected, or withdrawn, the alert says so.
  • Set up alerts for your own users: an application can create alerts on behalf of each of its users and route every notification to the right person.

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Adapt it to your field

Quivr keeps its core generic. Support for a new file format or a new kind of alert rule is added as a plugin, without changing Quivr itself. Plugins can be written in Python, and Quivr includes a tool that checks a plugin works before you use it.

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What it does not do yet

Quivr does not read scanned documents (images of text). Alerts described in a sentence need an outside classifier service: Quivr cannot yet decide them on its own. The remaining limits page lists what is known not to work.

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