Papers with Code Upgrades PDF Reader with RAG-style Citations via Chandra-OCR 2

NielsRogge · x · 2026-10-20

Engineer Niels Rogge announced major improvements to the Papers with Code PDF reader: the AI assistant now provides full RAG-style source citations, letting users click citations and highlight sections. It's powered by Datalab's openly available Chandra-OCR 2 on Hugging Face, which returns bounding boxes alongside markdown—enabling precise highlights on any PDF.

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