Papers with Code upgrades PDF reader with RAG-style citations powered by open-source Chandra-OCR 2
NielsRogge · x · 2026-10-22
NielsRogge (Hugging Face) announced a major upgrade to the Papers with Code PDF reader:
- The AI assistant now provides RAG-style citations, letting users click a citation to highlight the corresponding section in the PDF
- It is powered by Chandra-OCR 2 from Datalab, openly available on Hugging Face
- The model returns bounding boxes alongside markdown, enabling the click-to-highlight interaction
He demoed it on any PDF, and the original author JiaruZou shared the demo.
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