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multimodal retrieval engine\"\n    width=\"100%\"\n  /\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n  \n\u003cp align=\"center\"\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https://github.com/bicardinal/bicardinal/blob/main/LICENSE\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/bicardinal\" alt=\"License\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n  \u003ca href=\"https://pypi.org/project/bicardinal/\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/bicardinal?label=pypi\u0026color=blue\" alt=\"PyPI version\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\n# bicardinal\n\n**Multimodal retrieval engine.** Drop in PDFs, Word docs, images, audio, or\nplain text, bicardinal extracts, summarizes, embeds, and indexes them so you\ncan search across everything with one call.\n\n## Install\n\n```bash\npip install bicardinal\n```\n\nSet your provider keys (used for OCR, vision, transcription, and summaries):\n\n```bash\nexport OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...\nexport MISTRAL_API_KEY=...\n```\n\n## Deadly simple\n\n```python\nfrom pathlib import Path\nfrom bicardinal import Bicardinal\n\nstore = Bicardinal(\"./data\")          # a home for your collections\ncol = store.create(\"docs\")            # make a collection\ncol.init(\"build\")                     # open it for ingestion\n\n# Throw any file at it, pdf, docx, png, mp3, txt...\nfor path in Path(\"./my_files\").glob(\"*\"):\n    col.ingest(path.name, path.read_bytes())\n\ncol.finalize() # build the index\n\n# Search across everything\nfor hit in col.search(\"quarterly revenue growth\", k=5):\n    print(f\"{hit.score:.3f}  {hit.filename}#{hit.chunk_index}  {hit.raw_text[:80]}\")\n\ncol.close()\n```\n\nThat's it. 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