ragflow/README.md

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💡 What is RAGFlow?

RAGFlow is an open-source, Retrieval-Augmented Generation engine built on large language models (LLM), deep document understanding, and multiple recall. It offers a streamlined RAG workflow for businesses of any scale, providing truthful responses with solid citations through a generative AI knowledge management platform.

🌟 Key Features

🍭 “Quality in, quality out”

• Deep document understanding-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

🎬 Get Started

📝 Prerequisites

• CPU >= 2 cores
• RAM >= 8 GB
• Docker > If you have not installed Docker on your local machine (Windows, Mac, or Linux), see Install Docker Engine.

🚀 Start up the server

1. Ensure vm.max_map_count > 65535:

To check the value of vm.max_map_count:

   > $ sysctl vm.max_map_count
   > ```
   >
   > Reset `vm.max_map_count` to a value greater than 65535 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

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

   $ cd ragflow/docker
   $ docker compose up -d

The core image is about 15 GB in size and may take a while to load.

1. 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:

       ____                 ______ __               
      / __ \ ____ _ ____ _ / ____// /____  _      __
     / /_/ // __ `// __ `// /_   / // __ \| | /| / /
    / _, _// /_/ // /_/ // __/  / // /_/ /| |/ |/ / 
   /_/ |_| \__,_/ \__, //_/    /_/ \____/ |__/|__/  
                 /____/                             
     
    * Running on all addresses (0.0.0.0)
    * Running on http://127.0.0.1:9380
    * Running on http://172.22.0.5:9380
    INFO:werkzeug:Press CTRL+C to quit
    ```

5. In your web browser, enter the IP address of your server as prompted and log in to RAGFlow.
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 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:v1.0 .
$ cd ragflow/docker
$ docker compose up -d

📜 Roadmap

See the RAGFlow Roadmap 2024

🏄 Community

• Discord
• Twitter

🙌 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 first.