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No, and it will not pretend to. Only the handful of rows closest to your question are given to the model, so any total it produced would be over a fraction of the data and would look exactly like a real one. Use a spreadsheet formula for arithmetic; use this for finding the rows that matter and reading them back in plain English.

Each row is indexed with its column names attached, so the passage reads "Region: North; Revenue: 41200" rather than "North; 41200". Without headers a number carries no indication of what it measures, and neither retrieval nor the answer model can recover it.

Several thousand is workable, though indexing time grows with the row count and it all happens up front. Very large exports are better filtered down to the columns and rows you care about first — retrieval quality improves too, because there is less near-identical text to choose between.

No. The file is read, split, indexed and answered entirely inside this browser tab. The only thing downloaded is the model itself, from Hugging Face, and that happens once and is then cached. Nothing about your document goes the other way — which is the point of using this rather than a service on a contract, a payslip or a medical letter.

The document is split into passages and each one is turned into a vector that captures its meaning. Your question is turned into a vector the same way, the closest few passages are found by comparing them, and only those passages are given to the answer model. This is the same retrieval-augmented approach the hosted services use; the difference is that here the retrieval and the answering both happen on your device.

It is a model between 65 and 400 megabytes, which is one to four orders of magnitude smaller than a hosted assistant. It is good at pulling out a fact that is stated plainly in one place and much weaker at questions requiring several parts of the document to be combined, or at anything needing judgement. That is exactly why the passages behind every answer are shown with it — the answer is a shortcut to the right paragraph, not a substitute for reading it.

It says so rather than inventing one. Two separate checks make that possible: if no passage is even topically close to the question, the question is never put to the model at all, and when the extractive model is used its confidence is thresholded, because that model always returns its best guess and only its low confidence distinguishes a guess from an answer.

Neither. There is no key to obtain, no sign-up, no quota and no per-question cost. The trade is that the models are small enough to run on your own hardware, and answer quality reflects that.

After the first run, yes. The model is cached by the browser, so a second visit works with no network at all. The first visit has to download it.