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## 💡 What is RAGFlow?

[RAGFlow](https://demo.ragflow.io) is an open-source RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) engine based on deep document understanding. It offers a streamlined RAG workflow for businesses of any scale, combining LLM (Large Language Models) to provide truthful question-answering capabilities, backed by well-founded citations from various complex formatted data.

## 🌟 Key Features

### 🍭 **"Quality in, quality out"**

- [Deep document understanding](./deepdoc/README.md)-based knowledge extraction from unstructured data with complicated formats.
- Finds "needle in a data haystack" of literally unlimited tokens.

### 🍱 **Template-based chunking**

- Intelligent and explainable.
- Plenty of template options to choose from.

### 🌱 **Grounded citations with reduced hallucinations**

- Visualization of text chunking to allow human intervention.
- Quick view of the key references and traceable citations to support grounded answers.

### 🍔 **Compatibility with heterogeneous data sources**

- Supports Word, slides, excel, txt, images, scanned copies, structured data, web pages, and more.

### 🛀 **Automated and effortless RAG workflow**

- Streamlined RAG orchestration catered to both personal and large businesses.
- Configurable LLMs as well as embedding models.
- Multiple recall paired with fused re-ranking.
- Intuitive APIs for seamless integration with business.

## 📌 Latest Features

- 2024-04-26 Add file management.
- 2024-04-19 Support conversation API ([detail](./docs/conversation_api.md)).
- 2024-04-16 Add an embedding model 'bce-embedding-base_v1' from [BCEmbedding](https://github.com/netease-youdao/BCEmbedding).
- 2024-04-16 Add [FastEmbed](https://github.com/qdrant/fastembed), which is designed specifically for light and speedy embedding.
- 2024-04-11 Support [Xinference](./docs/xinference.md) for local LLM deployment.
- 2024-04-10 Add a new layout recognization model for analyzing Laws documentation.
- 2024-04-08 Support [Ollama](./docs/ollama.md) for local LLM deployment.
- 2024-04-07 Support Chinese UI.

## 🔎 System Architecture

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## 🎬 Get Started

### 📝 Prerequisites

- CPU >= 4 cores
- RAM >= 16 GB
- Disk >= 50 GB
- Docker >= 24.0.0 & Docker Compose >= v2.26.1
  > If you have not installed Docker on your local machine (Windows, Mac, or Linux), see [Install Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/).

### 🚀 Start up the server

1. Ensure `vm.max_map_count` >= 262144 ([more](./docs/max_map_count.md)):

   > To check the value of `vm.max_map_count`:
   >
   > ```bash
   > $ sysctl vm.max_map_count
   > ```
   >
   > Reset `vm.max_map_count` to a value at least 262144 if it is not.
   >
   > ```bash
   > # In this case, we set it to 262144:
   > $ sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
   > ```
   >
   > This change will be reset after a system reboot. To ensure your change remains permanent, add or update the `vm.max_map_count` value in **/etc/sysctl.conf** accordingly:
   >
   > ```bash
   > vm.max_map_count=262144
   > ```

2. Clone the repo:

   ```bash
   $ git clone https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow.git
   ```

3. Build the pre-built Docker images and start up the server:

   ```bash
   $ cd ragflow/docker
   $ chmod +x ./entrypoint.sh
   $ docker compose up -d
   ```

   > The core image is about 9 GB in size and may take a while to load.

4. Check the server status after having the server up and running:

   ```bash
   $ docker logs -f ragflow-server
   ```

   _The following output confirms a successful launch of the system:_

   ```bash
       ____                 ______ __
      / __ \ ____ _ ____ _ / ____// /____  _      __
     / /_/ // __ `// __ `// /_   / // __ \| | /| / /
    / _, _// /_/ // /_/ // __/  / // /_/ /| |/ |/ /
   /_/ |_| \__,_/ \__, //_/    /_/ \____/ |__/|__/
                 /____/

    * Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
    * Running on http://127.0.0.1:9380
    * Running on http://x.x.x.x:9380
    INFO:werkzeug:Press CTRL+C to quit
   ```
   > If you skip this confirmation step and directly log in to RAGFlow, your browser may prompt a `network anomaly` error because, at that moment, your RAGFlow may not be fully initialized.  

5. In your web browser, enter the IP address of your server and log in to RAGFlow.
   > With default settings, you only need to enter `http://IP_OF_YOUR_MACHINE` (**sans** port number) as the default HTTP serving port `80` can be omitted when using the default configurations.
6. In [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml), select the desired LLM factory in `user_default_llm` and update the `API_KEY` field with the corresponding API key.

   > See [./docs/llm_api_key_setup.md](./docs/llm_api_key_setup.md) for more information.

   _The show is now on!_

## 🔧 Configurations

When it comes to system configurations, you will need to manage the following files:

- [.env](./docker/.env): Keeps the fundamental setups for the system, such as `SVR_HTTP_PORT`, `MYSQL_PASSWORD`, and `MINIO_PASSWORD`.
- [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml): Configures the back-end services.
- [docker-compose.yml](./docker/docker-compose.yml): The system relies on [docker-compose.yml](./docker/docker-compose.yml) to start up.

You must ensure that changes to the [.env](./docker/.env) file are in line with what are in the [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml) file.

> The [./docker/README](./docker/README.md) file provides a detailed description of the environment settings and service configurations, and you are REQUIRED to ensure that all environment settings listed in the [./docker/README](./docker/README.md) file are aligned with the corresponding configurations in the [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml) file.

To update the default HTTP serving port (80), go to [docker-compose.yml](./docker/docker-compose.yml) and change `80:80` to `<YOUR_SERVING_PORT>:80`.

> Updates to all system configurations require a system reboot to take effect:
>
> ```bash
> $ docker-compose up -d
> ```

## 🛠️ Build from source

To build the Docker images from source:

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow.git
$ cd ragflow/
$ docker build -t infiniflow/ragflow:v0.4.0 .
$ cd ragflow/docker
$ chmod +x ./entrypoint.sh
$ docker compose up -d
```

## 📚 Documentation

- [FAQ](./docs/faq.md)

## 📜 Roadmap

See the [RAGFlow Roadmap 2024](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/issues/162)

## 🏄 Community

- [Discord](https://discord.gg/4XxujFgUN7)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/infiniflowai)

## 🙌 Contributing

RAGFlow flourishes via open-source collaboration. In this spirit, we embrace diverse contributions from the community. If you would like to be a part, review our [Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.