[michaelmarkell]

In our use-case we have many gigabytes of PDFs that contain some qualitative data but also many pages of inline pdf tables. In an ideal world we’d be “compressing” those embedded tables into some text that says “there’s a table here with these columns, if you want to analyze it you can use this <tool>, but basically the table is talking about X, here are the relevant stats like mean, sum, cardinality.”

In the naive chunking approach, we would grab random sections of line items from these tables because they happen to reference some similar text to the search query, but there’s no guarantee the data pulled into context is complete.