[nbbaier]

> I extracted the embedded text from the PDF

What did you use to extract the embedded text during this step? Other than some other OCR tech

[hugodutka]

PyMuPDF, a PDF library for Python.

[jimmySixDOF]

A different approach from vanilla OCR/parsing seems to be this mixed ColPali integrating a purposed small vision models and a ColBERT type indexing for retrieval. So - if search is the intended use case - it can skip the whole OCR step entirely.

[1] https://huggingface.co/blog/manu/colpali