# 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: ![Heliosurge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/heliosurge/32/571810_2.png) [@Heliosurge](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heliosurge)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/will-rag-support-pdf-files-in-the-future/335804/24 "2025-03-11T16:39:55Z")

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> [@Saif](#):
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> One of the challenges with the work behind this is supporting PDFs of all types. As you can imagine some PDFs are straight text and easy to parse. However, there are some with custom fonts, images, graphics, non-linearly formatted etc

Very valid points. Also some pdfs while have text in them. They are lazy scans as a graphic file vs a ctual text.

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