how to chat with your own documents using a private AI that never touches the cloud

Upload your PDFs, notes, and research to a local AI and ask it anything — with none of it leaving your machine. This is local RAG, and you can set… Aliteq Lena Fischer · AI & Local Compute Editor

Local RAG = chat with your own documents, privately, with nothing sent to the cloud.

Easiest tool: AnythingLLM — a desktop app built for document chat, zero-config (bundled vector database).

Alternative: Open WebUI — a browser ChatGPT-like UI with RAG built in, via Ollama.

Setup: install Ollama → pull a model → point the app at it → drop in PDFs. ~30 minutes.

Formats supported: PDF, DOCX, TXT, Markdown, CSV — even code and whole books.

Fully private — the documents and the AI both stay on your machine.

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