Why I Stopped Writing Custom Python Scripts Just to Parse PDFs to Markdown
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Last Tuesday, I was setting up a quick RAG pipeline for our internal team documentation. The task seemed harmless: ingest about 30 PDFs into a vector store and let the team chat with them. Two hours in, the bot started giving completely hallucinated answers. When I checked the vector database chunk…
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- 2026-09-05 00:09 · DEV Community — AI
Why I Stopped Writing Custom Python Scripts Just to Parse PDFs to Markdown