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Self-hosted document intelligence for OCR, extraction, search, and grounded Q&A.
Getting Started Open GitHub

Start here

Section titled “Start here”

Get running

Start with Docker Compose, then finish the first-run model configuration in the web UI.

Configure models

Add provider connections and assign separate models for metadata extraction, grounded Q&A, and OCR.

Troubleshoot OCR

Learn when to use LLM OCR, when to keep OCR local with Tesseract, and how to tune the OCR path.

Understand the repo

See the development commands, repository layout, and where the backend, workers, and UI live.