Using open webui with excel
Hey evryone! I'm new to hosting local AI and overall not a very technical person so apologies for any stupid question.
I've been looking into using open webui with local model to analyze excel data. My current setup is on Ubuntu; open webui installed via snap; and local models are managed via ollama. My excel file contains mutiple worksheet for language study, where 1 worksheet for me to keep track of the vocabs, and another one for writing sample sentences.
My use cases involve using the AI to loop through the vocab worksheet for the list of learned vocab, to come up with sample sentences where I can then translate to another language, while utilizing the vocabs that have yet been used based on the sample sentences.
I have had quite a lot of success with my use case using Deepseek webapp, but I'm unable to replicate the same thing with my local setup. The local model would just tell me it is not able to tell the data structure, or have a proper access to the file.
I have tried with using both Tika and Docling (managed via docker) for content extraction, also tried using Knowledge and File Upload to give the model access to the file.
Any guidance is appreciated!