InvokeAI/README.md
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# Invoke - Professional Creative AI Tools for Visual Media
[![discord badge]][discord link] [![latest release badge]][latest release link] [![github stars badge]][github stars link] [![github forks badge]][github forks link] [![CI checks on main badge]][CI checks on main link] [![latest commit to main badge]][latest commit to main link] [![github open issues badge]][github open issues link] [![github open prs badge]][github open prs link] [![translation status badge]][translation status link]
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Invoke is a leading creative engine built to empower professionals and enthusiasts alike. Generate and create stunning visual media using the latest AI-driven technologies. Invoke offers an industry leading web-based UI, and serves as the foundation for multiple commercial products.
- Free to use under a commercially-friendly license
- Download and install on compatible hardware
- Generate, refine, iterate on images, and build workflows
![Highlighted Features - Canvas and Workflows](https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/assets/31807370/708f7a82-084f-4860-bfbe-e2588c53548d)
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> ## 📣 Are you a new or returning InvokeAI user?
> Take our first annual [User's Survey](https://forms.gle/rCE5KuQ7Wfrd1UnS7)
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# Documentation
| **Quick Links** |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Installation and Updates][installation docs] - [Documentation and Tutorials][docs home] - [Bug Reports][github issues] - [Contributing][contributing docs] |
# Installation
To get started with Invoke, [Download the Launcher](https://github.com/invoke-ai/launcher/releases/latest).
## Troubleshooting, FAQ and Support
Please review our [FAQ][faq] for solutions to common installation problems and other issues.
For more help, please join our [Discord][discord link].
## Features
Full details on features can be found in [our documentation][features docs].
### Web Server & UI
Invoke runs a locally hosted web server & React UI with an industry-leading user experience.
### Unified Canvas
The Unified Canvas is a fully integrated canvas implementation with support for all core generation capabilities, in/out-painting, brush tools, and more. This creative tool unlocks the capability for artists to create with AI as a creative collaborator, and can be used to augment AI-generated imagery, sketches, photography, renders, and more.
### Workflows & Nodes
Invoke offers a fully featured workflow management solution, enabling users to combine the power of node-based workflows with the easy of a UI. This allows for customizable generation pipelines to be developed and shared by users looking to create specific workflows to support their production use-cases.
### Board & Gallery Management
Invoke features an organized gallery system for easily storing, accessing, and remixing your content in the Invoke workspace. Images can be dragged/dropped onto any Image-base UI element in the application, and rich metadata within the Image allows for easy recall of key prompts or settings used in your workflow.
### Other features
- Support for both ckpt and diffusers models
- SD1.5, SD2.0, SDXL, and FLUX support
- Upscaling Tools
- Embedding Manager & Support
- Model Manager & Support
- Workflow creation & management
- Node-Based Architecture
## Contributing
Anyone who wishes to contribute to this project - whether documentation, features, bug fixes, code cleanup, testing, or code reviews - is very much encouraged to do so.
Get started with contributing by reading our [contribution documentation][contributing docs], joining the [#dev-chat] or the GitHub discussion board.
We hope you enjoy using Invoke as much as we enjoy creating it, and we hope you will elect to become part of our community.
## Thanks
Invoke is a combined effort of [passionate and talented people from across the world][contributors]. We thank them for their time, hard work and effort.
Original portions of the software are Copyright © 2024 by respective contributors.
[features docs]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/features/database/
[faq]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/faq/
[contributors]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/contributing/contributors/
[github issues]: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/issues
[docs home]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI
[installation docs]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/installation/
[#dev-chat]: https://discord.com/channels/1020123559063990373/1049495067846524939
[contributing docs]: https://invoke-ai.github.io/InvokeAI/contributing/
[CI checks on main badge]: https://flat.badgen.net/github/checks/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/main?label=CI%20status%20on%20main&cache=900&icon=github
[CI checks on main link]: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/actions?query=branch%3Amain
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[discord link]: https://discord.gg/ZmtBAhwWhy
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[latest release link]: https://github.com/invoke-ai/InvokeAI/releases/latest
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[nvidia docker docs]: https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/cloud-native/container-toolkit/latest/install-guide.html
[amd docker docs]: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-linux/en/latest/how-to/docker.html