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title: Introduction
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description: 'Learn about Danswer'
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---
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## What is Danswer
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[Danswer](https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer) is an OpenSource Enterprise Question Answering Tool.
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### **But what is that?** 🤔
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<iframe
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width="560"
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height="315"
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src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/geNzY1nbCnU"
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title="Danswer Demo"
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frameborder="0"
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allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"
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allowfullscreen
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></iframe>
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**What do you mean by Question Answer?**
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- Direct QA allows you to ask questions in simple language and receive instant, accurate responses.
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- Unlock knowledge from private data sources whether that be company internal documents or personal sources you want
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to add.
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- Every answer is backed by quotes and reference documents so you can always trust what you get back.
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**What about OpenSource?**
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- The project is licensed under the MIT License, do anything you'd like!
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- Danswer is built to be easily hosted by anyone, all you need to setup are the data connectors.
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**How about Enterprise?**
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- Danswer has user authentication with document level access control.
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- Danswer provides connectors to common enterprise tools such as Slack, Google Drive, GitHub etc.
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## Main Features 💃
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- Direct QA powered by Generative AI models with answers backed by quotes and source links.
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- Intelligent Document Retrieval (Semantic Search/Reranking pipeline) using the latest LLMs.
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- An AI Helper backed by a custom Deep Learning model to interpret user intent.
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- User authentication with document level access management.
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- Connectors to Slack, GitHub, GoogleDrive, Confluence, BookStack, local files, and web scrapping, with more to come.
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- Management Dashboard to manage connectors and set up features such as live update fetching.
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- One line Docker Compose deployment of all services to host Danswer anywhere.
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## Upcoming
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- Chat/Conversation support.
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- Support custom endpoints for Generative AI models or even self-host options.
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- Template to easily build custom connectors.
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- Personalized search |