# Will RAG Support PDF Files in the Future?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-rag-support-pdf-files-in-the-future/335804
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** completed, ai, ai-bot
**Created:** [September 30, 2024, 5:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-rag-support-pdf-files-in-the-future/335804 "2024-09-30T17:35:55Z")
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### Author: ![Yenwod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/yenwod/32/275165_2.png) [@Yenwod](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Yenwod)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 12:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-rag-support-pdf-files-in-the-future/335804/19 "2025-02-15T00:44:32Z")

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@sam, I self-host and am wrestling with tesseract now. Installed no problem but its throwing errors that don’t seem to be serious enough to fail the job:

> Error during OCR processing: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:139:in `exec’: Failed to OCR image with Tesseract  
> Estimating resolution as 337

Even with that error, the PDF shows in the Persona as being indexed.

I’m not sure what this means in terms of the impact on RAG. I’ll dig deeper over the weekend.

Thank you for responding so quickly.

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