Why Standard RAG Text Splitters Hallucinate on Pricing Tables — And How Table-Aware Breadcrumb AST Chunking + Numeric Grounding Verification Fixes It
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If you feed enterprise pricing pages, SOC 2 security questionnaires, or financial PDFs into a standard fixed-token RAG splitter ( RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter with chunkSize: 512 ), your RAG pipeline will confidently hallucinate numbers. Why? Because naive character and token splitters slice Mark…
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