PDF extraction quietly wrecks RAG results what breaks and the token savings from converting to clean Markdown first
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I feel like PDF parsing doesn't get enough attention in RAG discussions. People spend hours comparing embedding models or chunking strategies, but if the parser has already broken the reading order, flattened tables, duplicated headers on every page or filled the output with OCR noise, you're embed…
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- 2026-08-27 11:35 · r/learnmachinelearning
PDF extraction quietly wrecks RAG results what breaks and the token savings from converting to clean Markdown first