PaperQA2

Retrieval augmented generation package that answers questions from scientific papers and documents with citations.

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PaperQA2 is a Python package for retrieval augmented generation over PDFs, text files, Office documents and source code, with a focus on scientific literature. It can be run as the pqa ask command or used as a library, and it supports locally hosted and embedding models. The README example answers a question with citations to specific papers and page ranges.

Use cases: research, knowledge-base, deep-research

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Fact sheet

Jobs: researchREADME
Where you use it: Terminal, APIREADME
Hosting: You run itREADME
Interfaces: sdkREADME
Open source: YesREADME

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Stars: 9,461
Forks: 946
Open issues: 133
Weekly downloads: 30,728
Last commit: Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)
Last release: Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)
Last package publish: Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)

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Details

Packages: pypi paper-qa
License: Apache-2.0
Repository: github.com/Future-House/paper-qa
Website: futurehouse.gitbook.io/futurehouse-cookbook
First seen: Oct 24, 2026
Last checked: Oct 24, 2026
Source: README github-graphql

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PaperQA2. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/agents/paperqa2 (last updated 2026-10-24)