Noggle

Noggle is a standalone desktop search and knowledge assistant application designed to provide efficient and easy access to information. According to the vendor, it offers a range of features including full-text discovery, document recommendations, topic detection, and image and photo search. While suitable for individual users, Noggle caters to knowledge workers, researchers, academics, professionals in various fields, and small businesses.

Key Features

Cognitive Search Engine: Noggle utilizes machine-based AI to deliver natural and contextual search capabilities. It employs advanced algorithms to provide document recommendations based on content similarity and enables cross-library search to retrieve relevant documents from different locations.

Intelligent Duplicate Detection: Noggle automatically identifies and hides identical versions of files across various storage or cloud drives, enhancing search result listings by filtering out duplicate files.

Recommendations: The application generates document recommendations based on related or similar documents, streamlining user workflow. It also retrieves knowledge sources from external deep-web science article libraries to provide users with relevant information.

Topic Detection & Auto-Clustering: Noggle organizes knowledge into content-based virtual folders using topic detection and visual clustering. This feature helps users navigate through document collections by organizing them into thematic clusters.

Drag and Drop Search: Users can find related materials by dragging and dropping internal or external documents into Noggle. The application retrieves all relevant material from knowledge libraries based on the dropped document.

Image & Photo Search: Noggle utilizes cognitive image analysis to identify individuals, genders, ages, faces, and other elements in photos. It also supports optical character recognition (OCR) to extract text from scanned images, making images and photos searchable using text and tags.

OCR Text Recognition: According to the vendor, Noggle reads text from image files using OCR technology. It detects and extracts recognized words from scanned images, making scanned or photographed files searchable via text searches.

External Journal Search: Noggle combines internal and external knowledge searches to find relevant materials from deep-web article libraries, patent databases, science libraries, and journals.

Knowledge Collections: Users can group documents into private collections based on their areas of interest. Noggle collects metadata fingerprints from documents to create content-related organizational structures. It also enables local sharing of collections while managing access rights.

Library Sharing & Collaboration: Noggle facilitates library sharing and collaboration among teams and colleagues. It provides cross-library search to detect relevant documents stored elsewhere on the network or local computers, speeding up document retrieval without compromising access rights.