fernsearch

Fern is a beautiful media search engine on steroids with multimodal embeddings, smart frame sampling and VLM reranking.

Usage

CLI Commands

# Index images from a folder
fern embed /path/to/images

# Search for images
fern search "red car"

# Use a different CLIP model
fern embed /path/to/images \
--model openai/clip-vit-large-patch14 \
--batch 32

# Force reindex (clear existing data first)
fern embed /path/to/images --reindex

# List available models
fern --list-models

UI

Start the web server

fern serve