paper-qa and document-qa
These are competitors in the scientific document QA space, with paper-qa offering a production-ready, heavily-adopted RAG system while document-qa appears to be an earlier-stage or less maintained alternative for similar citation-aware question-answering tasks.
About paper-qa
Future-House/paper-qa
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations
This tool helps researchers, scientists, and academics quickly find precise answers within a collection of scientific documents, such as PDFs or text files. You feed it your papers, and it provides accurate answers to your questions, complete with in-text citations to the original sources. This is ideal for anyone needing to extract specific information from a large volume of research literature.
About document-qa
lfoppiano/document-qa
Scientific Document Insight Q/A
This tool helps researchers, scientists, and students quickly extract information from scientific articles. You upload a PDF of a research paper, and it allows you to ask questions about its content in plain language. The system provides answers based on the document, highlighting key entities like physical quantities, measurements, and materials.
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