# 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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#### Post date: [February 15, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-rag-support-pdf-files-in-the-future/335804/20 "2025-02-15T03:16:34Z")

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> [@Yenwod](#):
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> I’m not sure what this means in terms of the impact on RAG.

We have an eval (and I want to add more), but basically depending on the model image to text quality varies a lot if it is not grounded.

The good news though is that with PDF we can do text extraction in a lossless way and then only lean on the LLM to improve it if you want to gold plate. Should have something next week.

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