Will RAG Support PDF Files in the Future?

MachineScholar · February 14, 2025, 10:19am

I must say, this commit is looking quite beautiful

FEATURE: PDF support for rag pipeline (#1118)

committed 01:15AM - 14 Feb 25 UTC

This PR introduces several enhancements and refactorings to the AI Persona and R…AG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) functionalities within the discourse-ai plugin. Here's a breakdown of the changes: **1. LLM Model Association for RAG and Personas:** - **New Database Columns:** Adds `rag_llm_model_id` to both `ai_personas` and `ai_tools` tables. This allows specifying a dedicated LLM for RAG indexing, separate from the persona's primary LLM. Adds `default_llm_id` and `question_consolidator_llm_id` to `ai_personas`. - **Migration:** Includes a migration (`20250210032345_migrate_persona_to_llm_model_id.rb`) to populate the new `default_llm_id` and `question_consolidator_llm_id` columns in `ai_personas` based on the existing `default_llm` and `question_consolidator_llm` string columns, and a post migration to remove the latter. - **Model Changes:** The `AiPersona` and `AiTool` models now `belong_to` an `LlmModel` via `rag_llm_model_id`. The `LlmModel.proxy` method now accepts an `LlmModel` instance instead of just an identifier. `AiPersona` now has `default_llm_id` and `question_consolidator_llm_id` attributes. - **UI Updates:** The AI Persona and AI Tool editors in the admin panel now allow selecting an LLM for RAG indexing (if PDF/image support is enabled). The RAG options component displays an LLM selector. - **Serialization:** The serializers (`AiCustomToolSerializer`, `AiCustomToolListSerializer`, `LocalizedAiPersonaSerializer`) have been updated to include the new `rag_llm_model_id`, `default_llm_id` and `question_consolidator_llm_id` attributes. **2. PDF and Image Support for RAG:** - **Site Setting:** Introduces a new hidden site setting, `ai_rag_pdf_images_enabled`, to control whether PDF and image files can be indexed for RAG. This defaults to `false`. - **File Upload Validation:** The `RagDocumentFragmentsController` now checks the `ai_rag_pdf_images_enabled` setting and allows PDF, PNG, JPG, and JPEG files if enabled. Error handling is included for cases where PDF/image indexing is attempted with the setting disabled. - **PDF Processing:** Adds a new utility class, `DiscourseAi::Utils::PdfToImages`, which uses ImageMagick (`magick`) to convert PDF pages into individual PNG images. A maximum PDF size and conversion timeout are enforced. - **Image Processing:** A new utility class, `DiscourseAi::Utils::ImageToText`, is included to handle OCR for the images and PDFs. - **RAG Digestion Job:** The `DigestRagUpload` job now handles PDF and image uploads. It uses `PdfToImages` and `ImageToText` to extract text and create document fragments. - **UI Updates:** The RAG uploader component now accepts PDF and image file types if `ai_rag_pdf_images_enabled` is true. The UI text is adjusted to indicate supported file types. **3. Refactoring and Improvements:** - **LLM Enumeration:** The `DiscourseAi::Configuration::LlmEnumerator` now provides a `values_for_serialization` method, which returns a simplified array of LLM data (id, name, vision_enabled) suitable for use in serializers. This avoids exposing unnecessary details to the frontend. - **AI Helper:** The `AiHelper::Assistant` now takes optional `helper_llm` and `image_caption_llm` parameters in its constructor, allowing for greater flexibility. - **Bot and Persona Updates:** Several updates were made across the codebase, changing the string based association to a LLM to the new model based. - **Audit Logs:** The `DiscourseAi::Completions::Endpoints::Base` now formats raw request payloads as pretty JSON for easier auditing. - **Eval Script:** An evaluation script is included. **4. Testing:** - The PR introduces a new eval system for LLMs, this allows us to test how functionality works across various LLM providers. This lives in `/evals`

Is there maybe possibly perhaps any timeline for full release of this feature? I see that it is a hidden site feature for now

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