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What is multimodal RAG, and how does it differ from text-only RAG?

Real documents carry images, charts, and tables, not just text, and text-only RAG silently drops them. The signal is knowing the two retrieval approaches and why the generator must change too. Here is the answer.

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Real documents carry images, charts, and tables, not just text, and text-only RAG silently drops them. The signal is knowing the two retrieval approaches and why the generator must change too. Here is the answer.

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