Fixed-Size vs Semantic Chunking for Document Retrieval Accuracy
Fixed-size chunking outperforms semantic chunking on real-world benchmarks, despite its simplicity.
Adesola Bankole
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Adesola Bankole
Adesola Bankole covers rag ingestion and chunking strategy, table, chart and layout extraction and document parsing and ocr accuracy for The Parse Layer.
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Chart and Figure Data Extraction From PDF Reports
Modern tools combining OCR and vision models now extract chart data from PDFs as structured tables.
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OCR Engine Comparison for Dense Technical PDFs
Vendor benchmarks measure clean text, not the dense PDFs that break OCR in practice.
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Chunking is where most RAG pipelines quietly lose, and document structure should drive the splits
Document structure beats arbitrary token limits for better retrieval results.
Adesola Bankole