Will RAG Support PDF Files in the Future?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

This is now supported and basic documentation is up at:

PDF support in Discourse AI

This guide explains how to implement and use PDF processing capabilities within discourse-ai, including both basic text extraction and enhanced processing with LLM assistance. Required user level: Administrator Summary The discourse-ai plugin supports PDF processing for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) in two distinct modes: Basic text extraction Enhanced processing with LLM analysis Basic text extraction This mode provides fundamental PDF processing c…

Note, enhanced processing will require container changes at the moment as @featheredtoast / @tgxworld were in the midst of refactoring image magick support and we dropped ghostscript support by mistake.

This can be configured by hand but would is beyond the scope of what I can post here, it is fiddly steps, so those waiting of enhanced processing, give us a few weeks.