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perlathebian/document-chatbot-rag

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RAG-based document chatbot — upload PDFs, ask questions, get answers with source citations. Built with LangChain, ChromaDB, sentence-transformers, Groq, FastAPI, and Streamlit.

What's novel

RAG-based document chatbot — upload PDFs, ask questions, get answers with source citations. Built with LangChain, ChromaDB, sentence-transformers, Groq, FastAPI, and Streamlit.

Code Analysis

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A standard RAG application that allows users to upload PDFs, chunks them, stores embeddings in ChromaDB, and answers questions via a Streamlit UI using the Groq API.

Strengths

The project has a clear separation of concerns between the backend API, the RAG pipeline logic, and the frontend. The README accurately describes the functionality and architecture. It uses standard, well-maintained libraries (LangChain, ChromaDB, FastAPI).

Weaknesses

Error handling is minimal, relying mostly on generic exceptions from libraries without specific catch blocks or user-friendly error messages. Testing is virtually non-existent. The implementation is largely boilerplate for a RAG pipeline with no novel algorithms or optimizations.

Score Breakdown

Innovation
3 (25%)
Craft
50 (35%)
Traction
6 (15%)
Scope
61 (25%)

Signal breakdown

Innovation

Not Fork+1
Code Novelty+1
Concept Novelty+0

Craft

Ci+0
Tests+3
Polish+0
Releases+0
Has License+0
Code Quality+15
Readme Quality+15
Recent Activity+7
Structure Quality+5
Commit Consistency+0
Has Dependency Mgmt+5

Traction

Forks+0
Stars+6
Hn Points+0
Watchers+0
Early Traction+0
Devto Reactions+0
Community Contribs+0

Scope

Commits+7
Languages+5
Subsystems+5
Bloat Penalty+0
Completeness+6
Contributors+5
Authored Files+8
Readme Code Match+3
Architecture Depth+5
Implementation Depth+8

Evidence

Commits

21

Contributors

1

Files

19

Active weeks

2

TestsCI/CDREADMELicenseContributing

Repository

Language

Python

Stars

1

Forks

0

License