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Talking with your PDFs locally with Blablador and GPT4all

GPT4All now supports Blablador, enabling users to chat with their PDFs locally and privately. The integration allows documents to remain on the user's computer while leveraging Blablador's models through an OpenAI-compatible API.

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GPT4All is your private and local Chatbot app. You can use it to talk models running on your own hardware, plus models running on Blablador!

This allows you to have Blablador talk to your PDF files, securely and privately, since the documents never leave your computer.

Prerequisites

  • Download
[GPT4All](https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all) [A Blablador Token](../blablador_api_access/)

### Steps[¶](#steps)
  • Install GPT4all and run it.
  • Choose "models" on the right side of the screen.
  • Click in "Add Model"
  • Choose "OpenAI Compatible"
  • In API KEY

, add Blablador's token as specified above. - In Base URL

, addhttps://api.blablador.fz-juelich.de/v1

  • In Model Name

, addalias-fast

, or choose one of the models described in theBlablador's API Access page

  • In

That's it! Now you can talk to Blablador directly via GPT4all, and add your documents at the localdocs

session on the right side of the screen.

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