Title: Recommendations for Models that Handle Text and Screenshots for QA

[John6666]

That’s good! If you follow the posts below about PDF layout issues, there may be some progress in the future.
Word files are usually business documents, so they don’t have as many unique formats as academic papers, but I think the basic issues are the same. And there is always demand for improvements to OCR.

Challenges of Using PDF Documents as Input for RAG: Text Flow, Tokenization, and Semantic Coherence

Hello Community, I’m currently facing a complex challenge with using PDF documents as an input source for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in AI applications. For our university, we’re developing a database of bachelor’s theses and academic publications to make research content more accessible to students. PDFs, primarily designed for visual presentation and print, contain many format-based elements such as page breaks, line breaks, and recurring headers and footers. While these structures …