← All questions
RAGMedium· Document Layout· Chunking· Retrieval

Your PDF pipeline works on single-column reports and pr...

The high confidence score indicates that the character-level extraction is correct, but the document structure is being misinterpreted. Sorting lines by (y, x) coordinates causes the pipeline to read across columns rather than down them, interleaving text and reducing coherent spans from hundreds of tokens to just a few. The fix is to sort by layout blocks rather than individual lines to preserve the intended reading order.

Code playground (Python)