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swiss_army_llama

Dicklesworthstone/swiss_army_llama

A FastAPI service for semantic text search using precomputed embeddings and advanced similarity measures

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Decision brief

Swiss_army_llama offers a versatile semantic text search FastAPI service with precomputed embeddings, similarity measures, and support for various file types via textract.

Good fit when

  • For projects requiring a comprehensive API solution that includes built-in support for diverse file formats like PDF, image, audio and more through textract
  • When you need integration with the llama-cpp-python library for advanced text search capabilities

Avoid when

  • Avoid if your project is strictly focused on real-time embeddings calculation without leveraging precomputed data
  • Not suitable for developers looking to avoid extensive system dependencies listed in its requirements

Observed Jul 15, 2026 · Source: enrich:decision_facts

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Maintenance and security

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Maintenance
Dormant (526d since push)
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Provenance
Not a fork · Personal account
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Security (OSV)
No criticals
As of 1mo

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Install

pip install swiss_army_llama
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Evidence and technical details

Sourced facts, taxonomy, compatibility claims, README excerpt, and machine-readable endpoints.

Overview

This Python-based repository offers a FastAPI service focused on semantic text search with support for various file types via textract, leveraging precomputed embeddings and advanced similarity techniques.

Capability facts

Deploy
Self-host

Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 8, 2026

Docker
Dockerfile present

Source: dockerfile:Dockerfile · Aug 8, 2026

Languages
python

Source: github.language+pyproject.toml · Aug 8, 2026

Categories

Compatibility

Sourced claims from the README excerpt - not unsourced marketing copy.

Python runtimePython

Source: README excerpt (regex_v1, Aug 8, 2026)

Python Requirements:
Source link

Tags

README

Requirements

System requirements for running the application (to support all the file types handled by textract):

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev antiword unrtf poppler-utils pstotext tesseract-ocr flac ffmpeg lame libmad0 libsox-fmt-mp3 sox libjpeg-dev swig -y

Python Requirements:

aioredis
aioredlock
aiosqlite
apscheduler
faiss-cpu
fast_vector_similarity
fastapi
faster-whisper
filelock
httpx
llama-cpp-python
magika
mutagen
nvgpu
pandas
pillow
psutil
pydantic
PyPDF2
pytest
python-decouple
python-multipart
pytz
redis
ruff
scikit-learn
scipy
sqlalchemy
textract-py3
uvicorn
uvloop
zstandard

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

For agents

This page has a .md twin and JSON over the API.

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