weiwill88 / Local_Pdf_Chat_RAG
Transparent Python RAG reference with FAISS + BM25 hybrid retrieval, reranking, Gradio UI, and FastAPI.
Why this job: says: rag; topics: rag, retrieval-augmented-generation, hybrid-search

What it does
Local PDF Chat RAG is an educational and reference implementation for developers who want to inspect the complete retrieval-augmented generation pipeline. Document loading, chunking, embeddings, FAISS, BM25, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and answer generation are split into readable and replaceable modules. The repository includes both a Gradio UI and a FastAPI interface.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 2 months ago
- Stars
- 959
- +1 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v2.1.0
- Released 2 months ago
- Built with
- Python
- 100% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 2
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 100% closed
- 0 still open
- Pull requests
- 11 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 2
- 2 in the last year
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 100%
Topics
- bm25
- chinese-nlp
- deepseek
- document-qa
- faiss
- fastapi
- gradio
- hybrid-search
- ollama
- python
- rag
- retrieval-augmented-generation
Project record
- JobRAG and search
- StatusListed
- Commits8
- Forks184
- Watching6
- Stars in 28 days+3
- CreatedFeb 1, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026
