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Re:Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-l... by teruakohatu on Sunday December 10, 2023 @03:45AM (#38590150)
Can a directory of PDFs be queried or does it only support a single document?
Re:Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-l... by d7y on Sunday December 10, 2023 @09:32AM (#38591735)
Right now it supports selecting & uploading a _few_ PDFs on chat-creation. Those PDFs get indexed online -- i.e. while the user waits. So it doesn't scale well with the number of PDFs selected in a chat because you'd have to wait that long before the chat responds with your initial question/prompt.

We plan to make this indexing process offline, where you can create a document collection based on either a directory upload or an integrated data source like Google Drive, Notion, Confluence, etc. Then the system would start indexing that collection in the background and notify you once indexing is complete. Once a collection is indexed, users can select it when creating a new chat and query against it.

Let us know if you have any thoughts on this proposed solution.

Re:Show HN: Open source alternative to ChatGPT and ChatPDF-l... by d7y on Saturday December 16, 2023 @05:58PM (#38668580)
Hi there!

We just added this in the latest release (v0.0.2). You can now create a document collection and upload as many PDFs into it as needed. The documents are processed in the background and once processing finishes, you can create as many chats with it as needed.

Quick demo: https://youtu.be/PwvfVx8VCoY Installation Instructions: https://github.com/SecureAI-Tools/SecureAI-Tools?tab=readme-...

Please try it out, and let me know how it goes. We're always looking to improve the tool so let us know if you have any feedback for us :)