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RAG-Anything

One RAG framework for everything — including multimodal documents.

★ 23.5k stars⑂ 2.7k forksMITupdated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

RAG-Anything is an open-source ai agents project by HKUDS (HKUDS/RAG-Anything on GitHub). It has 23,495 GitHub stars and 2,735 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 6 October 2026.

GitHub stars
23,495
Forks
2,735
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
6 October 2026
Category
AI Agents
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your goal

    Decide what you want the project to do before installing anything.

  2. Clone the repo

    Grab the source and skim the README for setup requirements.

  3. Install and configure

    Install dependencies and add any API keys or settings it needs.

  4. Run your first task

    Launch it and follow the example workflow from the docs.

// features

Why people love it

All-in-one pipeline

Parsing through generation in one toolkit.

Multimodal parsing

Text, images, tables — the messy reality.

Research-backed

From HKU with a published paper.

Unified API

One interface across document types.

Python

Fits the standard ML stack.

MIT licensed

Free for commercial use.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Step 1 — Clone the repo

    Download the source and move into the project folder.

    git clone https://github.com/HKUDS/RAG-Anything.git
    cd RAG-Anything
  2. Step 2 — Create a venv and install

    Isolate dependencies, then install requirements.

    python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Step 3 — Run it

    Launch using the entry point shown in the README.

    python -m rag_anything  # check README for the exact command
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains RAG-Anything?

It is an open-source project at HKUDS/RAG-Anything with 2735 forks. Check the contributors tab and recent commits to judge how active maintenance is.

Is RAG-Anything free to use?

Yes — it's MIT licensed: free to use, modify, and ship commercially. Just keep the license notice in copies.

What does 'multimodal' cover?

Documents mixing text, images, tables, and more — the full messy reality of enterprise files. See the paper for details.

Is there a paper?

Yes — the design is described in an arXiv paper linked from the repo homepage field.

How do I get started?

Clone the repo and follow the README quickstart — the README is the best starting point.

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