A practical design for a one-workstation biomedical literature explorer: ingest the right NCBI datasets, preserve IDs and licenses, measure lexical and semantic retrieval separately, and make every generated answer open back to its evidence.
Category: Documents
Before You Index 17,000 Research PDFs, Test the Collection
A practical integrity test for scientific PDF collections: identify versions, audit extraction, preserve page-level provenance, measure retrieval, and build the knowledge graph only after the evidence is stable.
How to Search Confidential PDFs Locally on a 12 GB Laptop—Without Overbuilding RAG
A practical, privacy-first path from searchable PDFs to local retrieval: extract text, measure full-text search, add OCR or embeddings only when the evidence says you need them, and keep every result tied to its source.