diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c55847d55..f346b6c6c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,16 +20,17 @@
-[RagFlow](https://demo.ragflow.io) is a knowledge management platform built on custom-build document understanding engine and LLM, with reasoned and well-founded answers to your question. Clone this repository, you can deploy your own knowledge management platform to empower your business with AI.
-
+## 💡 What is RagFlow?
+
+[RagFlow](http://demo.ragflow.io) is a knowledge management platform built on custom-build document understanding engine and LLM, with reasoned and well-founded answers to your question. Clone this repository, you can deploy your own knowledge management platform to empower your business with AI.
-## 🌟Key Features
+## 🌟 Key Features
- 🍭**Custom-build document understanding engine.** Our deep learning engine is made according to the needs of analyzing and searching various type of documents in different domain.
- - For documents from different domain for different purpose, the engine applys different analyzing and search strategy.
+ - For documents from different domain for different purpose, the engine applies different analyzing and search strategy.
- Easily intervene and manipulate the data proccessing procedure when things goes beyond expectation.
- Multi-media document understanding is supported using OCR and multi-modal LLM.
- 🍭**State-of-the-art table structure and layout recognition.** Precisely extract and understand the document including table content. See [README.](./deepdoc/README.md)
@@ -46,34 +47,52 @@
## 🤺RagFlow vs. other RAG applications
+## 🔎 System Architecture
+
+

+
## 🎬 Get Started
-### 📝Prerequisites
+### 📝 Prerequisites
+
- CPU >= 2 cores
- RAM >= 8 GB
+- Docker
+- `vm.max_map_count` > 65535
-Then, you need to check the following command:
-```bash
-$ sysctl vm.max_map_count
-vm.max_map_count = 262144
-```
-If **vm.max_map_count** is not greater than 65535:
-```bash
-$ sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
-```
-Note that this change is reset after a system reboot. To render your change permanent, add or update the following line in **/etc/sysctl.conf**:
+> To check the value of `vm.max_map_count`:
+>
+> ```bash
+> $ sysctl vm.max_map_count
+> ```
+>
+> Reset `vm.max_map_count` to a value greater than 65535 if it is not. In this case, we set it to 262144:
+>
+> ```bash
+> $ sudo sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144
+> ```
+>
+> This change will be reset after a system reboot. To ensure your change remains permanent, add or update the following line in **/etc/sysctl.conf** accordingly:
+>
+> ```bash
+> vm.max_map_count=262144
+> ```
-```bash
-vm.max_map_count=262144
-```
-### Install docker
-If you have not installed *Docker* on your local machine, see [Install Docker Engine](https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/)
+### Start up the RagFlow server
-### Quick Start
+1. Clone the repo
+
+ ```bash
+ $ git clone https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow.git
+ ```
+
+
+
+2.
> - In [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml), configuration of *LLM* in **user_default_llm** is strongly recommended.
> In **user_default_llm** of [service_conf.yaml](./docker/service_conf.yaml), you need to specify LLM factory and your own _API_KEY_.
@@ -83,7 +102,7 @@ Settings the next time you log in to the system.
> [OpenAI](https://platform.openai.com/login?launch), [Tongyi-Qianwen](https://dashscope.console.aliyun.com/model),
> [ZHIPU-AI](https://open.bigmodel.cn/), [Moonshot](https://platform.moonshot.cn/docs/docs)
```bash
-$ git clone https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow.git
+
$ cd ragflow/docker
$ docker compose up -d
```
@@ -98,11 +117,11 @@ $ docker compose up -d
```
> The core image is about 15 GB in size and may take a while to load.
-Check the server status after pulling all images and running up:
+Check the server status after pulling all images and having Docker up and running:
```bash
$ docker logs -f ragflow-server
```
-*Hallelujah! The following outputs indicates that you have successfully launched the system:*
+*The following output confirms the successful launch of the system:*
```bash
____ ______ __
@@ -118,20 +137,17 @@ $ docker logs -f ragflow-server
INFO:werkzeug:Press CTRL+C to quit
```
-Open your browser, enter the IP address of your server, _**Hallelujah**_ again!
-> The default serving port is 80, if you want to change that, refer to the [docker-compose.yml](./docker-compose.yaml) and change the left part of *'80:80'*'.
+In your browser, enter the IP address of your server.
-## 🔎System Architecture
-
-

-
## 🔧 Configurations
+> The default serving port is 80, if you want to change that, refer to the [docker-compose.yml](./docker-compose.yaml) and change the left part of `80:80`, say `66:80`.
+
If you need to change the default setting of the system when you deploy it. There several ways to configure it.
Please refer to this [README](./docker/README.md) to manually update the configuration.
-After changing something, please run *docker-compose up -d* again.
+Updates to system configurations require a system reboot to take effect *docker-compose up -d* again.
> If you want to change the basic setups, like port, password .etc., please refer to [.env](./docker/.env) before starting up the system.
@@ -141,15 +157,12 @@ After changing something, please run *docker-compose up -d* again.
See the [RagFlow Roadmap 2024](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/issues/162)
-## 🏄Community
+## 🏄 Community
- [Discord](https://discord.gg/uqQ4YMDf)
-- X
-- [GitHub Discussions]()
-- YouTube
-- WeChat
-
+- [Twitter](https://twitter.com/infiniflowai)
+- GitHub Discussions
## 🙌 Contributing
-For those who'd like to contribute code, see our [Contribution Guide](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
+RagFlow flourishes via open-source collaboration. In this spirit, we embrace diverse contributions from the community. If you would like to be a part, review our [Contribution Guidelines](https://github.com/infiniflow/ragflow/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) first.