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RAGFlow: Make AI Answer From Your Own Documents
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LlamaFactory Fine-Tunes 100+ Models From One Place
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3 things retrieval fixes that fine-tuning cannot — answers from your own files, citations you can check, and updates the moment a document changes. Apache-2.0, self-hosted.
RAGFlow: Make AI Answer From Your Own Documents
This is the tool most people actually need when they think they need to fine-tune a model. Fine-tuning teaches behaviour; retrieval supplies knowledge — and almost every 'make the AI know our company data' project is a knowledge problem.
A model answering from its training data cannot tell you where an answer came from. A retrieval system can point at the paragraph. For anything a business acts on — a policy, a contract, a specification — that difference decides whether the answer is usable.
Fine-tuning bakes knowledge in; changing it means training again. Retrieval reads the document at question time, so correcting a file corrects every future answer immediately.
Retrieval cannot rescue a bad source. Scanned pages with no text layer, tables flattened into prose, and documents that contradict each other all produce confident wrong answers — and now with a citation attached, which makes them more convincing rather than less.
Pros
Cons
Pick ten documents, not a thousand
A small, clean set tells you whether this works for your material.
OCR anything scanned
A PDF with no text layer is invisible to retrieval. Tesseract handles this free.
Deploy RAGFlow
Follow the project's self-hosting guide — this is a server deployment, not an install.
Ask questions you know the answer to
That is the only way to catch a confident wrong answer early.
For knowledge, almost always. Retrieval reads your documents at question time and can cite them. Fine-tuning changes how a model responds, not what it knows.
Yes, Apache-2.0. You pay for the model it queries and the server you run it on.
Retrieval is language-agnostic in principle, and current models handle Hindi well. Test on your own documents before committing — mixed-script PDFs are where problems appear.
Only after OCR. A scan is an image; run it through an OCR step first or the text is invisible to the system.
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