NaviDocs - Professional Boat Manual Management

Production-ready boat manual management platform with OCR and intelligent search

Built with Vue 3, Express, SQLite, and Meilisearch. Extracted from the lilian1 (FRANK-AI) prototype with clean, professional code only.

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Features

• Upload PDFs - Drag and drop boat manuals
• OCR Processing - Automatic text extraction with Tesseract.js
• Intelligent Search - Meilisearch with boat terminology synonyms
• Offline-First - PWA with service worker caching
• Multi-Vertical - Supports boats, marinas, and properties
• Secure - Tenant tokens, file validation, rate limiting

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Tech Stack

Backend

• Node.js 20 - Express 5
• SQLite - better-sqlite3 with WAL mode
• Meilisearch - Sub-100ms search with synonyms
• BullMQ - Background OCR job processing
• Tesseract.js - PDF text extraction

Frontend

• Vue 3 - Composition API with <script setup>
• Vite - Fast builds and HMR
• Tailwind CSS - Meilisearch-inspired design
• Pinia - State management
• PDF.js - Document viewer

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Quick Start

Prerequisites

# Required
node >= 20.0.0
npm >= 10.0.0

# For OCR
pdftoppm (from poppler-utils)
tesseract >= 5.0.0

# For search
meilisearch >= 1.0.0

# For queue
redis >= 6.0.0

Installation

# Clone repository
cd ~/navidocs

# Install server dependencies
cd server
npm install
cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env with your configuration

# Initialize database
npm run init-db

# Install client dependencies
cd ../client
npm install

# Start services (each in separate terminal)
meilisearch --master-key=masterKey
redis-server
cd ~/navidocs/server && node workers/ocr-worker.js
cd ~/navidocs/server && npm run dev
cd ~/navidocs/client && npm run dev

Visit http://localhost:5173

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Architecture

See docs/architecture/ for complete schema and configuration details.

Ship it. Learn from users. Iterate.