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Your RAG system struggles with PDFs containing tables and complex layouts. How do you fix parsing?

Garbage parsing means garbage retrieval, and naive PDF text extraction destroys tables and reading order. The signal is fixing the parser, not the retriever. Here is the answer.

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Garbage parsing means garbage retrieval, and naive PDF text extraction destroys tables and reading order. The signal is fixing the parser, not the retriever. Here is the answer.

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