Future-House/paper-qa

High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations

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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.

8,264 stars. Used by 2 other packages. Actively maintained with 3 commits in the last 30 days. Available on PyPI.

Use this if you need to rapidly and accurately answer specific questions using information directly from a collection of scientific papers, ensuring all claims are backed by citations.

Not ideal if you're looking for a general-purpose search engine for web content or if your primary data source isn't scientific documents.

scientific-research literature-review academic-writing information-extraction research-synthesis
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Adoption 12 / 25
Maturity 25 / 25
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Language

Python

License

Apache-2.0

Last pushed

Mar 12, 2026

Commits (30d)

3

Dependencies

16

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