Messy source ingestion
PDFs, office documents and HTML that extract into soup: broken reading order, tables flattened, headings lost.
Use case · RAG and search teams
Retrieval quality is mostly an ingestion problem. Structure that survives extraction, chunks that keep their lineage, and an evaluation set with unanswerable questions in it.
Each one points at a different product — the decision helper below turns the symptom into a starting point.
PDFs, office documents and HTML that extract into soup: broken reading order, tables flattened, headings lost.
No way to tell whether a retrieval change helped, because there is no labelled set to measure against.
An answer cites a chunk, and nobody can say which document or passage it came from.
Grounded Q&A and RAG evaluation records with evidence spans, citation IDs and answerability labels.
Clean, structured source documents with the extraction quality retrieval depends on.
Your chunking rules, your metadata, your delivery channel — as a repeatable pipeline.
| If you need | Start here | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Better extraction from PDFs and office files | Monolingual corpora | Format-aware extraction, reading order and tables preserved |
| Chunks you can trace | Custom dataset development | chunk_id and parent_doc carried on every record |
| A retrieval evaluation set | Q&A & instruction data | Answerable and unanswerable questions with citation targets |
| Hard negatives | Q&A & instruction data | Adversarial and near-miss passages, labelled |
| Recurring refresh of the index source | Custom dataset development | Delta releases with a changelog |
Reading order, tables, captions and formulas preserved as specified.
how measured · parser checks + human sample
Every evidence ID resolves to real text in the cited chunk.
how measured · automated, full pass
Share of unanswerable questions in the evaluation set.
how measured · per release
Chunks carrying a resolvable parent document and span.
how measured · manifest validation, full pass
We will help define a feasible pilot, quality criteria and a delivery format for your model.