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ScrapalotYour Documents, Supercharged

Stop searching. Start asking. Turn any document into an intelligent conversation partner.

The Problem We're Solving

Research is drowning in documents. Literature reviews take weeks. Finding connections between papers is manual detective work. Your team's collective knowledge stays siloed in individual folders.

The real challenge isn't finding information—it's understanding it. You need to:

  • Synthesize insights across dozens or hundreds of papers
  • Track citations and relationships between documents
  • Collaborate with teammates on shared research
  • Answer complex questions that span multiple sources

Scrapalot transforms document chaos into structured knowledge. It's not just search—it's a research intelligence platform.

Who Uses Scrapalot?

Researchers & Scientists

"I uploaded 50 research papers and asked it to compare methodologies across studies. Got a comprehensive answer in seconds with exact citations."

Perfect for literature reviews, hypothesis generation, grant writing, and discovering hidden connections across research domains. Supports academic connectors (Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, arXiv) for direct paper import.

Academic Institutions

"Our PhD students complete literature reviews in days instead of months. The knowledge graph reveals relationships between papers we never noticed."

Accelerate research workflows, enable cross-departmental collaboration, and build institutional knowledge bases that persist beyond individual projects.

R&D Teams

"We centralized 5 years of internal research reports. Now our scientists can query across all past experiments instantly."

Turn scattered research into searchable, queryable knowledge. Find prior art, avoid duplicating experiments, and build on past discoveries.

Engineering Teams

"Our technical documentation finally makes sense. New engineers onboard faster, and senior devs answer questions without context-switching."

Knowledge sharing without the bottleneck. Your documentation becomes a conversational partner, not a maze of markdown files.

How It Actually Works

Step 1: Upload & Connect Drag and drop PDFs, EPUBs, Word docs, or connect Google Drive, Dropbox, Notion. Search academic databases directly (Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, arXiv). We'll read everything—even scanned documents and images.

Step 2: Ask Anything
"What were the main findings in the Q3 reports?"
"Compare the pricing models mentioned in these contracts."
"Summarize all the security requirements across our documentation."

Step 3: Get Smart Answers
Not just keyword matches—actual understanding. With citations, so you can verify everything.

The Secret Sauce

We use 22 perfectly crafted intelligent search strategies and 9 orchestrators, and let an AI agent automatically select the optimal approach for your question.

Three-Way Search Fusion:

  • Semantic understanding (meaning-based search)
  • Keyword matching (exact phrase finding)
  • Relationship mapping (connection discovery)

Smart Context System:

  • Hierarchical document structure (Workspace → Collection → Book → Chapter → Section)
  • Intelligent context expansion from snippets to full sections
  • 70% reduction in incorrect answers vs. traditional systems

Advanced Processing:

  • 15 document processing strategies for optimal accuracy
  • Intelligent chunking that preserves meaning across documents

Knowledge Graph Enhancement:

  • Automatic entity and relationship extraction
  • Cross-document connection discovery
  • 25% better answers for entity questions, 40% for relationship queries

You don't need to understand the internals—it just works. But for the curious, we've documented our architecture in detail.

Pricing That Makes Sense

Scrapalot is open-core: self-host the free, open-source Community Edition, or let us run the full product for you. See Editions for the full breakdown.

Community Edition - Free & Open Source

Run the core on your own infrastructure, no subscription.

  • AGPL-3.0 licensed, self-hosted with Docker Compose
  • Document ingestion, OCR, chunking and embeddings
  • Core vector-search RAG chat
  • Collaborative notes editor (real-time)
  • Bring Your Own Key (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, or local models)
  • No usage quotas — it's your hardware

GitHub: sime2408/scrapalot → · Self-host guide →

Researcher Plan - Free (Hosted)

The managed cloud free tier — zero setup, perfect for individual researchers and students.

  • Managed hosting - no setup required
  • Single-user workspace
  • Core RAG capabilities
  • Use any AI model (OpenAI, local, etc.)
  • Academic connectors (Google Scholar, arXiv, Semantic Scholar)
  • Your research data stays yours - export and migrate anytime

Apps: Use the web app in any browser, or the native Android app (available now). A native desktop app is coming soon.

Get Started →

Professional Plan - $19/month

For research teams and small organizations.

  • Up to 5 team members
  • Shared workspaces and collections
  • Team collaboration features
  • Priority support
  • Cloud storage included

Enterprise Plan - Custom Pricing

For large institutions and organizations.

  • On-premise deployment to your cloud infrastructure
  • Unlimited users and workspaces
  • SSO integration (SAML, LDAP)
  • Dedicated support and SLAs
  • Custom features and integrations
  • Professional services available

Open-Core Model

Scrapalot is open-core. The core is free and open source; the advanced AI surfaces and the managed cloud are what fund development.

Community Edition (AGPL-3.0): Self-host the free, open-source core on your own infrastructure — no subscription, no quotas.

Researcher Plan: Free managed cloud tier for individual academics — used via the web app or the native Android app.

Pro / Team / Enterprise: The advanced AI features (deep research, knowledge graph, AI Scientist, voice, integrations), team collaboration and the mobile app, fully managed on our cloud.

Your research data is always yours - export and migrate anytime.

What Makes This Different?

Research-Grade Intelligence

Most tools do keyword matching. Scrapalot uses agentic RAG with 22 strategies and 9 orchestrators, tri-modal fusion (semantic + lexical + graph), and knowledge graphs. Ask "What methodologies do these papers share?" and get synthesis across sources with exact citations.

Built by Researchers, For Researchers

We built this because literature reviews were painful. Spending weeks reading papers, manually tracking citations, losing insights in scattered notes. If it frustrated us, we fixed it. The result: a research intelligence platform, not just document search.

Open-Core, Self-Host or Hosted

Scrapalot is open-core: the core is free and open source, so you can self-host the Community Edition (AGPL-3.0) on your own infrastructure with Docker Compose. Prefer zero setup? The full product — advanced RAG, deep research, knowledge graphs, and the mobile app — is delivered as a managed cloud service with subscription tiers. Use Scrapalot in the web app (any browser) today, with a native Android app available now and a native desktop app coming soon. Individual academics get the core free on our cloud Researcher tier, or self-host it entirely for free.

Technical Depth Without the Complexity

Under the hood: Advanced search algorithms, intelligent routing, three-way fusion, context expansion, knowledge graphs, and 15 chunking strategies. On the surface: a simple chat interface. You get research-grade AI without needing a technical background.

Next Steps

Just Want to Try It?
Quick Start → - 10 minutes to your first answer

Want to Understand How It Works?
Architecture Deep Dive → - For the technically curious

Need Help?
FAQ → - Common questions
GitHub Discussions - Ask the community
Email Us - We actually respond


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Open-core — Community Edition under AGPL-3.0 · Hosted product is proprietary.