My PDF converter interleaved a two-column paper line by line — a PDF has no reading order
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A user's RAG pipeline started answering questions about an ML paper with answers that mashed together two unrelated sections. I pulled the source: a classic two-column conference paper. The extracted Markdown read like someone shuffled every other line — and it had, because it alternated between co…
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- 2026-10-10 04:02 · DEV Community — AI
My PDF converter interleaved a two-column paper line by line — a PDF has no reading order