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-# rag
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+# rag over PDFs
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+This repo lets you index unstructured documents in a Chroma store, and then query them through an offline LLM served by Ollama. A simple UI is provided through streamlit.
 
 - run `poetry run python3 rag/docs_rag/index.py` to index PDFs into a Chroma index.
 - run the chat with `poetry run streamlit run rag/docs_rag/docs_chat.py`