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How to extract meaning from charts and tables in PDFs
PDFs full of charts and tables are notoriously hard to put through a traditional RAG pipeline. In this post, we show how late-interaction multi-vector retrieval lets you search PDFs by what the page looks like: no OCR, no chunking, no text extraction.
By Etienne Dilocker, Augustas SkaburskasWeaviate

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Originally published by Weaviate on Sep 1, 2026.
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