Kotaemon
Clean RAG UI for chatting with your documents
Kotaemon is an open-source, customizable RAG application for chatting with documents. It offers a clean interface with multimodal document support, citations, and a complex reasoning pipeline.
Key features
- Clean document chat UI
- Citation support
- Multimodal RAG
- Configurable pipelines
Strengths
- Released under the Apache-2.0 license
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 25.7k GitHub stars
- Written in Python
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