Your RAG App Is Broken Because You're Still Parsing PDFs Like It's 2023 (opens in new tab)

Most developers building "chat with your data" apps hit the exact same wall. You chunk the text, embed it, dump it in a vector database, and the retrieval is still terrible. The model hallucinates or completely scrambles tables. People think data ingestion is just text extraction. It isn't. In 2026, text extraction is a solved, boring problem. The actual hard part is layout. If your ingestion layer doesn't know that a bold header implies hierarchy, or that a two-column page isn't just one lon...