Best open-source RAG command-line tools for personal use

Open-source retrieval-augmented generation engines and vector databases.

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MarkItDownmicrosoft/markitdown

Convert Office files and PDFs to Markdown for LLMsPersonalEnterpriseRAG & vector DBsCLILibrary / SDK★ 188kMITcommit 7 hours ago

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Doclingdocling-project/docling

Get your documents ready for generative AIPersonalEnterpriseRAG & vector DBsCLILibrary / SDK★ 68kMITcommit 18 hours ago

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MinerUopendatalab/MinerU

Convert PDFs and Office docs to LLM-ready MarkdownPersonalEnterpriseRAG & vector DBsCLILibrary / SDK★ 81kcommit 4 days ago

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Markerdatalab-to/marker

Convert PDFs to Markdown and JSON with high accuracyPersonalEnterpriseRAG & vector DBsCLILibrary / SDK★ 40kApache-2.0commit 23 hours ago

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qmdtobi/qmd

Local search engine for your docsPersonalDeveloper toolsRAG & vector DBsCLI★ 30kMITcommit yesterday

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anydocfirecrawl/anydoc

Convert office files and PDFs to MarkdownPersonalEnterpriseRAG & vector DBsCLILibrary / SDK★ 22kMITcommit last month

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