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Perplexity's New Visual Retriever Has a Size Problem. We Fixed It.

A number in a financial report needs its row, column, and unit to mean anything. A chart needs its labels. When you build search over PDFs, that context is part of what you want to retrieve. Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-late, two late interaction models that search document pages as images.

By Andrey VasnetsovQdrant
Perplexity's New Visual Retriever Has a Size Problem. We Fixed It.

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Originally published by Qdrant on Oct 13, 2026.

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