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<details open>
<summary></b>📕 Table of Contents</b></summary>
  
- 💡 [What is RAGFlow?](#-what-is-ragflow)
- 🎮 [Demo](#-demo)
- 📌 [Latest Updates](#-latest-updates)
- 🌟 [Key Features](#-key-features)
- 🔎 [System Architecture](#-system-architecture)
- 🎬 [Get Started](#-get-started)
- 🔧 [Configurations](#-configurations)
- 🛠️ [Build RAGFlow image](#-build-ragflow-image)
- 🛠️ [Launch service from source for development](#-launch-service-from-source-for-development)
- 📚 [Documentation](#-documentation)
- 📜 [Roadmap](#-roadmap)
- 🏄 [Community](#-community)
- 🙌 [Contributing](#-contributing)

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## 💡 What is RAGFlow?

[RAGFlow](https://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.

## 🎮 Demo

Try our demo at [https://demo.ragflow.io](https://demo.ragflow.io).
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## 🔥 Latest Updates

- 2024-09-13 Adds search mode for knowledge base Q&A.
- 2024-09-09 Adds a medical consultant agent template.
- 2024-08-22 Support text to SQL statements through RAG.
- 2024-08-02 Supports GraphRAG inspired by [graphrag](https://github.com/microsoft/graphrag) and mind map.
- 2024-07-23 Supports audio file parsing.
- 2024-07-08 Supports workflow based on [Graph](./agent/README.md).
- 2024-06-27 Supports Markdown and Docx in the Q&A parsing method, extracting images from Docx files, extracting tables from Markdown files.
- 2024-05-23 Supports [RAPTOR](https://arxiv.org/html/2401.18059v1) for better text retrieval.


## 🌟 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.

## 🔎 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:

   > 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:
   > Running the following commands automatically downloads the *dev* version RAGFlow Docker image. To download and run a specified Docker version, update `RAGFLOW_VERSION` in **docker/.env** to the intended version, for example `RAGFLOW_VERSION=v0.11.0`, before running the following commands.

   ```bash
   $ cd ragflow/docker
   $ 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 abnormal` 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 the 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 [llm_api_key_setup](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/llm_api_key_setup) 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 the above configurations require a reboot of all containers to take effect:

> ```bash
> $ docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d
> ```

## 🛠️ Build RAGFlow image

To build the Docker images from source:

```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow.git
$ cd ragflow/
$ docker build -f Dockerfile.scratch -t infiniflow/ragflow:dev .
```

## 🛠️ Launch service from source for development

To launch the service from source:

1. Clone the repository: 

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

2. Install all python dependencies in a newly created virtual environment named `.venv`:

   ```bash
   $ curl -sSL https://install.python-poetry.org | python3 -
   $ $HOME/.local/bin/poetry install --sync --no-root
   ```

3. Copy the entry script and configure environment variables:
   
   ```bash
   # Adjust configurations according to your actual situation (the following two export commands are newly added):
   # - Comment out `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`, if it is configured.
   # - Optional: Add Hugging Face mirror.
   source ~/.venv/bin/activate
   export PYTHONPATH=$(pwd)
   export HF_ENDPOINT=https://hf-mirror.com
   ```

4. Launch the third-party services (MinIO, Elasticsearch, Redis, and MySQL):

   ```bash
   $ docker compose -f docker/docker-compose-base.yml up -d
   ```

5. Adjust configurations
   Add the following line to `/etc/hosts` to resolve all hosts in `docker/service_conf.yaml` to `127.0.0.1`:

   ```
   127.0.0.1       es01 mysql minio redis
   ```

   Edit `docker/service_conf.yaml` to change mysql port to `5455` and es port to `1200`, as specified in `docker/.env`.

6. Launch the RAGFlow backend service:
   Comment out the `nginx` line in `docker/entrypoint.sh` and run the script:

   ```bash
   $ bash docker/entrypoint.sh
   ```

7. Launch the frontend service:

   ```bash
   $ cd web
   $ npm install --force
   $ vim .umirc.ts
   # Update proxy.target to http://127.0.0.1:9380
   $ npm run dev 
   ```

8. In your web browser, enter `http://127.0.0.1/`.

## 📚 Documentation

- [Quickstart](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/)
- [User guide](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/category/user-guides)
- [References](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/category/references)
- [FAQ](https://ragflow.io/docs/dev/faq)

## 📜 Roadmap

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

## 🏄 Community

- [Discord](https://discord.gg/4XxujFgUN7)
- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/infiniflowai)
- [GitHub Discussions](https://github.com/orgs/infiniflow/discussions)

## 🙌 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](./docs/references/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.