Commentarium v2.0 — Research Studio

🧬 Commentarium v2.0 — Research Studio

The v1.x Streamlit line ends with v1.9.0.
v2.0 keeps the same FastAPI backend and features, but replaces the entire frontend with a fast, dark/light single-page app served directly by the API process at http://localhost:8010 — no build step, no node.

✨ Highlights

• 🖥️ Research Studio SPA — Dashboard with live stats & quick actions, Library, Chat, Podcast studio, OCR, Citations, Settings and Log viewer in one sidebar
• 💬 Chat with project scope — pick a project, watch thread history and RAG context follow it; answers carry page-level citations
• 🎙️ Podcast studio v2 — async generation with live job cards, project-scoped paper picking, waveform player
• 🔍 OCR studio — PDFs & images → clean Markdown (Tesseract / PaddleOCR-VL / TeleOCR backends)
• 📝 Citations — Crossref verification, APA 7 / Vancouver export
• ⌨️ Command palette — Ctrl/Cmd + K, Enter runs, Esc closes
• 📎 Supported documents: PDF · DOCX/DOC · TXT · Markdown (library) · PDF + PNG/JPEG/WEBP/BMP/TIFF → Markdown (OCR studio)
• 🚀 Background launchers — run.bat / stop_all.bat (also as root-level shims); hidden pythonw server, browser auto-open; port-aware Exit & shut down buttons

▶ Run it

pip install -r requirements.txt
copy .env.example .env      # paste any OpenAI-compatible key, or point at LM Studio / Ollama
run.bat                     # → http://localhost:8010

🎨 Try the UI online (static demo, no backend)

farazjz.github.io/Commentarium

🆚 v1.9 vs v2.0

	v1.9.0 (Streamlit)	v2.0.0 (Research Studio)
UI	Streamlit pages	Single-page app served by FastAPI
Startup	API + UI processes	One process, background launcher
URL	:8501	:8010
Backend	identical feature set	identical feature set

Full browser test suite: ALL PASS at release time.