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colette

Multimodal RAG to search and interact locally with technical documents of any kind

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
302GitHub stars
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What it is

Multimodal RAG to search and interact locally with technical documents of any kind

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by hour2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-07-21 19:24:05 UTC to 2025-07-21 22:09:18 UTC.

012025-07-21 19:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 21, 19:002025-07-21 20:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJul 21, 20:002025-07-21 21:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-21 22:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-21 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 21, 22:00

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Jul 21, 19:002025-07-21 19:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 20:00:00 UTC101
Jul 21, 20:002025-07-21 20:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 21:00:00 UTC000
Jul 21, 21:002025-07-21 21:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 22:00:00 UTC000
Jul 21, 22:002025-07-21 22:00:00 UTC2025-07-21 23:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Some colleagues and myself did implemented exactly this six months ago for a French gov agency. It's open source and available here: https://github.com/jolibrain/colette It's not our primary business so it's just lying there and we don't advertise much, but it works, somehow and with some tweaks to get it really efficient. The true genius though is that the whole thing can be made fully differentiable, unlocking the ability to finetune the viz rag on targeted datasets. The layout model can also be customized for fine grained document understanding.
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