Cinnamon/kotaemon
An open-source RAG-based tool for chatting with documents.
Cinnamon/kotaemon launched on September 11, 2024 with 174 votes, #353 of 5,281 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
Kotaemon is an open-source RAG-based tool that lets users ask questions about their documents and get answers. It works for end users doing question-answering on local files and developers building custom RAG pipelines. The application provides a user interface for document analysis and supports contributions from the developer community through its GitHub repository.
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From the sources
This project serves as a functional RAG UI for both end users who want to do QA on their documents and developers who want to build their own RAG pipeline.
This page is intended for end users who want to use the kotaemon tool for Question Answering on local documents. If you are a developer who wants contribute to the project, please visit the development page. Download the kotaemon-app.zip file from the latest release . To launch the app after initial setup or any change, simply run the run_* script again. For how to use the application, see Usage . This page will also be available to you within the application. Feel free to create a bug report or a feature request on our repofrom cinnamon.github.io
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