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Document Processing

Document processing for RAG pipelines: PDF parsing, OCR, table extraction, and multi-modal document understanding.

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Document Processing

Production documents are messy — PDFs with image-tables, Word docs with tracked changes, HTML full of nav bars. Ingestion is the unglamorous stage where most RAG quality is quietly won or lost.

THE CENTRAL IDEA

“Garbage in, garbage out” is not a cliché in RAG — it is the failure mode. Everything downstream (chunking, embedding, retrieval) inherits whatever text this stage produces. A table whose cells got interleaved into gibberish will embed into gibberish and retrieve as gibberish. Time spent here has the highest return of any stage in the pipeline.

Document Ingestion — Handling Real-World Data

Production documents are messy. PDFs have tables rendered as images. Word docs have track changes. HTML has nav bars and footers. Confluence pages embed Jira tickets. The ingestion pipeline must handle all of it.

Document Type Matrix

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