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Design a document ingestion pipeline for RAG

Parse, chunk and index millions of PDFs, scans and office files so LLM apps can search them.

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Concepts this round covers

  • Parsing messy formats
  • Incremental updates and deletes
  • Backfills at scale
  • Retrieval

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