AI-Powered Document Intelligence Platform

Research · Understand · Extract · Translate · Create

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About

PAPERY is an open-source AI platform that transforms how people work with documents. Whether you're a researcher, student, analyst, or professional — PAPERY gives you superpowers to read, understand, query, and create documents with the help of AI.

Upload any document. Ask questions. Get insights. Generate reports. All in one place.

Key Features

📄 Universal Document Support

• Read and process all major formats: PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CSV, TXT, Markdown, and more.
• View documents directly in the UI with a built-in document viewer.

🔍 Intelligent Q&A & Research

• Ask questions about your documents and get accurate, cited answers.
• AI reads, comprehends, and cross-references across multiple documents.
• Extract key information, summaries, and insights automatically.
• Visual reference system — see exactly where answers come from in the original document.

📑 Citation & Reference

• Every AI response includes precise citations back to source material.
• Interactive reference panel — click a citation to jump to the exact location in the document.
• Export citations in standard academic formats.

🌐 Multi-Language Document Translation

• Translate entire documents across languages while preserving the original structure and formatting.
• Layout, tables, images, headers — everything stays in place, only the language changes.

🤖 Multi-Agent Research Workflows

• AI agents collaborate to research topics, gather information, and produce comprehensive outputs.
• Generate formatted documents that follow specific templates and rules:
  • Scientific reports, academic papers, business analyses
  • Custom templates provided by the user
  • Community templates from the marketplace
• End-to-end: from research question to polished, publication-ready document.

✏️ AI-Powered Document Editing

• AI can directly intervene in document structure — add, edit, or remove sections.
• Modify specific parts of a document while maintaining overall architecture and formatting.
• Collaborative editing: human guides, AI executes — with full control and undo.

💡 Insight Generation

• Automatic summarization and key takeaway extraction.
• Cross-document analysis to find patterns, contradictions, and connections.
• Topic clustering and knowledge graph generation.

Tech Stack

🚧 Under development — tech stack will be documented as the project evolves.

Getting Started

🚧 Coming soon.

Project Structure

PAPERY/
├── docs/              # Documentation and assets
├── CLAUDE.md          # AI agent instructions and project rules
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md # Community guidelines
├── CONTRIBUTING.md    # Contribution guidelines
├── LICENSE            # CC BY-NC 4.0
└── README.md          # This file

Roadmap

• Core document ingestion pipeline (PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, CSV, TXT)
• Document viewer with in-app rendering
• AI-powered Q&A with citation and reference
• Multi-document cross-referencing
• Document summarization and insight extraction
• Multi-language translation with structure preservation
• Multi-agent research workflow engine
• Template system and formatted document generation
• AI-assisted document editing (add/edit/remove sections)
• Marketplace for community templates and rules
• Knowledge graph and topic clustering

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please refer to CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

This project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

You are free to share and adapt this project for non-commercial purposes only, with appropriate attribution.