docqa-engine

Upload documents, ask questions -- get cited answers with a prompt engineering lab.

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🚀 Pro Version Available

Get production-ready features with the Pro version:

Feature	GitHub (Free)	Pro ($25)
Basic RAG pipeline	✓	✓
Document upload & chunking	✓	✓
Hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense)	✓	✓
Prompt engineering lab	✓	✓
Extended documentation	-	✓
Docker deployment files	-	✓
CI/CD workflows	-	✓
Cloud deployment guides	-	✓
Priority email support	-	✓

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What This Solves

• RAG pipeline from upload to answer -- Ingest documents (PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, CSV), chunk them with pluggable strategies, embed with TF-IDF, and retrieve using BM25 + dense hybrid search with Reciprocal Rank Fusion
• Prompt engineering lab for A/B testing -- Create prompt templates, run the same question through different strategies side-by-side, compare outputs
• Citation accuracy matters -- Faithfulness, coverage, and redundancy scoring for every generated citation

Business Impact

Quantified outcomes from production document intelligence deployments:

Key Metrics

Metric	Before	After	Improvement
Document review time	3 days	3 minutes	99% faster
Contract analysis accuracy	72%	94%	31% improvement
Research hours per case	8 hours	45 minutes	91% reduction
API costs per 1K queries	$180	$24	87% reduction

Additional Outcomes

• Hybrid retrieval outperforms BM25-only by 15-25% -- Combining sparse + dense vectors finds relevant passages traditional search misses
• Citation scoring ensures answer reliability -- Faithfulness, coverage, and redundancy metrics for every generated citation
• No external embedding API required -- Local TF-IDF embeddings eliminate vendor lock-in and reduce costs
• <100ms query latency -- Sub-second response times for 10K document corpus

Use Cases

Industry	Use Case	Outcome
Legal	Contract analysis and discovery	99% faster document review
Finance	SEC filing analysis and due diligence	91% reduction in research time
Healthcare	Medical literature review and compliance	87% cost reduction on document Q&A
Enterprise	Internal knowledge base search	15-25% better retrieval accuracy

Service Mapping

• Service 3: Custom RAG Conversational Agents
• Service 5: Prompt Engineering and System Optimization

Certification Mapping

• IBM Generative AI Engineering with PyTorch, LangChain & Hugging Face
• IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate
• Vanderbilt ChatGPT Personal Automation
• Duke University LLMOps Specialization

Architecture

flowchart TB
    Upload["Document Upload\n(PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, CSV)"]
    Chunk["Chunking Engine\n(semantic, fixed, sliding window)"]
    Embed["Embedding Layer\n(TF-IDF, BM25, Dense)"]
    VStore["Vector Store\n(FAISS / in-memory)"]
    Hybrid["Hybrid Retrieval\n(BM25 + Dense + RRF fusion)"]
    Rerank["Cross-Encoder Re-Ranker"]
    QExpand["Query Expansion\n(synonym, PRF, decompose)"]
    Citation["Citation Scoring\n(faithfulness, coverage, redundancy)"]
    Answer["Answer Generation"]
    Convo["Conversation Manager\n(multi-turn context)"]
    API["REST API\n(JWT auth, rate limiting, metering)"]
    UI["Streamlit Demo UI\n(4-tab interface)"]

    Upload --> Chunk --> Embed --> VStore
    QExpand --> Hybrid
    VStore --> Hybrid --> Rerank --> Answer
    Answer --> Citation
    Answer --> Convo
    API --> Answer
    UI --> API

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Key Metrics

Metric	Value
Test Suite	550+ automated tests
Retrieval Accuracy	Hybrid > BM25-only by 15-25%
Re-Ranking Boost	+8-12% relevance improvement
Query Latency	<100ms for 10K document corpus
Citation Accuracy	Faithfulness + coverage scoring
API Rate Limit	Configurable per-user metering

Modules

Module	File	Description
Ingest	ingest.py	Multi-format document loading (PDF, DOCX, TXT, MD, CSV)
Chunking	chunking.py	Pluggable chunking strategies: fixed-size, sentence-boundary, semantic
Embedder	embedder.py	TF-IDF embedding (5,000 features, no external API calls)
Retriever	retriever.py	BM25 + dense cosine + hybrid RRF fusion
Answer	answer.py	Context-aware answer generation with source citations
Prompt Lab	prompt_lab.py	Prompt versioning and A/B comparison framework
Citation Scorer	citation_scorer.py	Citation faithfulness, coverage, and redundancy scoring
Evaluator	evaluator.py	Retrieval metrics: MRR, NDCG@K, Precision@K, Recall@K, Hit Rate
Batch	batch.py	Parallel batch ingestion and query processing
Exporter	exporter.py	JSON/CSV export for results and metrics
Cost Tracker	cost_tracker.py	Per-query token and cost tracking
Pipeline	pipeline.py	End-to-end DocQAPipeline class
REST API	api.py	FastAPI wrapper with JWT auth, rate limiting, metering
Vector Store	vector_store.py	Pluggable vector store backends (FAISS, in-memory)
Re-Ranker	reranker.py	Cross-encoder TF-IDF re-ranking with Kendall tau
Query Expansion	query_expansion.py	Synonym, pseudo-relevance feedback, decomposition
Answer Quality	answer_quality.py	Multi-axis answer quality scoring
Summarizer	summarizer.py	Extractive and abstractive document summarization
Document Graph	document_graph.py	Cross-document entity and relationship graph
Multi-Hop	multi_hop.py	Multi-hop reasoning across document chains
Conversation Manager	conversation_manager.py	Multi-turn context tracking and query rewriting
Context Compressor	context_compressor.py	Token-budget context window compression
Benchmark Runner	benchmark_runner.py	Automated retrieval and performance benchmarking

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/ChunkyTortoise/docqa-engine.git
cd docqa-engine
pip install -r requirements.txt
make test
make demo

Docker Quick Start

The fastest way to run DocQA Engine with Docker:

# Clone and start
git clone https://github.com/ChunkyTortoise/docqa-engine.git
cd docqa-engine
docker-compose up -d

# Open http://localhost:8501

Docker Commands

Command	Description
docker-compose up -d	Start demo in background
docker-compose down	Stop and remove containers
docker-compose logs -f	View logs
docker-compose build	Rebuild image

Docker Build (Manual)

# Build the image
docker build -t docqa-engine .

# Run the container
docker run -p 8501:8501 -v ./uploads:/app/uploads docqa-engine

# Open http://localhost:8501

With API Keys (Optional)

To enable LLM-powered answer generation:

# Create .env file with your API keys
echo "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_key_here" > .env

# Start with environment variables
docker-compose --env-file .env up -d

Image Size

The optimized multi-stage build produces images under 500MB:

• Base: Python 3.11 slim (~150MB)
• Dependencies: scikit-learn, Streamlit, etc. (~200MB)
• Application: ~50MB

Demo Documents

Document	Topic	Content
python_guide.md	Python Basics	Variables, control flow, functions, classes, error handling
machine_learning.md	ML Concepts	Supervised/unsupervised, regression, classification, neural networks
startup_playbook.md	Startup Advice	Product-market fit, MVP, fundraising, team building, metrics

Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
UI	Streamlit (4 tabs)
Embeddings	scikit-learn (TF-IDF)
Retrieval	BM25 (Okapi) + Dense (cosine) + RRF
Document Parsing	PyPDF2, python-docx
Testing	pytest, pytest-asyncio (550+ tests)
CI	GitHub Actions (Python 3.11, 3.12)
Linting	Ruff

Project Structure

docqa-engine/
├── app.py                          # Streamlit application (4 tabs)
├── docqa_engine/
│   ├── ingest.py                   # Document loading + parsing
│   ├── chunking.py                 # Pluggable chunking strategies
│   ├── embedder.py                 # TF-IDF embedding
│   ├── retriever.py                # BM25 + Dense + Hybrid (RRF)
│   ├── answer.py                   # LLM answer generation + citations
│   ├── prompt_lab.py               # Prompt versioning + A/B testing
│   ├── citation_scorer.py          # Citation accuracy scoring
│   ├── evaluator.py                # Retrieval metrics (MRR, NDCG, P@K)
│   ├── batch.py                    # Parallel batch processing
│   ├── exporter.py                 # JSON/CSV export
│   ├── cost_tracker.py             # Token + cost tracking
│   └── pipeline.py                 # End-to-end pipeline
├── demo_docs/                      # 3 sample documents
├── tests/                          # 26 test files, 550+ tests
├── .github/workflows/ci.yml        # CI pipeline
├── Makefile                        # demo, test, lint, setup
└── requirements.txt

Architecture Decisions

ADR	Title	Status
ADR-0001	Hybrid Retrieval Strategy	Accepted
ADR-0002	TF-IDF Local Embeddings	Accepted
ADR-0003	Citation Scoring Framework	Accepted
ADR-0004	REST API Wrapper Design	Accepted

Testing

make test                           # Full suite (550+ tests)
python -m pytest tests/ -v          # Verbose output
python -m pytest tests/test_ingest.py  # Single module

Benchmarks

See BENCHMARKS.md for detailed performance data.

python -m benchmarks.run_all

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for release history.

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Support This Project

If DocQA Engine has been useful to you, consider sponsoring its continued development:

See SPONSORS.md for sponsorship tiers and benefits.

License

MIT -- see LICENSE for details.

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Work With Me

Building RAG pipelines or document intelligence systems? I help teams ship production-ready document Q&A:

• 📄 Consulting — RAG architecture, retrieval strategies, cost optimization
• 🚀 Implementation — Hybrid retrieval, citation systems, production hardening
• 📧 Enterprise — Custom integrations, SLAs, dedicated support

Client Testimonials

See what clients say about working with me: TESTIMONIALS.md

"We went from manual contract review (3 days) to automated analysis (3 minutes) with better accuracy."
— Legal Operations Manager, Enterprise