Kotaemon
ActiveDescription
Kotaemon is an open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with your documents, featuring a clean chat interface and support for multiple LLM and embedding model backends.
Key Features
- Hybrid RAG pipeline — combines full-text and vector retrieval with re-ranking for best retrieval quality
- Multimodal document QA — supports PDF, HTML, XLSX formats with figure and table extraction from documents
- Advanced citations with document preview — relevance-scored citations with in-browser PDF viewer and highlight support
- Multiple reasoning modes — question decomposition for complex multi-hop Q&A, plus ReAct and ReWOO agent-based reasoning
- Configurable settings UI — adjust retrieval and generation parameters directly in the UI including prompt templates
- Multi-user collaboration — supports multi-user login, private/public collection management, and chat sharing
Use Cases
💡 Personal document knowledge base: upload PDFs and chat with them through a conversational interface
💡 Team knowledge sharing platform: create private document collections for collaborative team use
💡 Academic literature research: multimodal Q&A on papers with figure data extraction and citation tracking
💡 Enterprise compliance document retrieval: quickly locate relevant clauses and explanations in compliance files
💡 Multilingual document processing: privacy-friendly offline Q&A using local LLMs like Ollama
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Quick Start
```bash
docker run -e GRADIO_SERVER_NAME=0.0.0.0 -e GRADIO_SERVER_PORT=7860 -v ./ktem_app_data:/app/ktem_app_data -p 7860:7860 -it --rm ghcr.io/cinnamon/kotaemon:main-full
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