What Is Entity Extraction? Definition and Guide
Entity extraction pulls named things — people, dates, amounts, organizations — out of unstructured text and labels each one. A developer's guide to how it works on PDFs.
Glossary
11 glossary guides.
What Is Document Ingestion? Definition and Guide
Document ingestion is the process of loading, extracting, and preparing documents for downstream processing. A complete guide for developers.
What Is Document Intelligence? Definition and Guide
Document intelligence uses AI to understand, classify, and extract structured data from documents. A complete guide for developers.
What Is Layout Analysis? Definition and Guide
Layout analysis detects the spatial structure of document pages — columns, headers, tables, and reading order. A complete guide for developers.
What Is OCR? Definition and Guide
OCR (Optical Character Recognition) converts images of text into machine-readable characters. A complete guide for developers.
What Is PDF Extraction? Definition and Guide
PDF extraction is the process of pulling text, tables, images, and metadata from PDF files programmatically. A complete guide for developers.
What Is a RAG Pipeline? Definition and Guide
A RAG pipeline (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) combines document retrieval with AI generation for accurate, grounded answers. A complete guide for developers.
What Is Table Extraction? Definition and Guide
Table extraction is the process of detecting and converting tables in documents into structured data. A complete guide for developers.
What Is Text Chunking? Definition and Guide
Text chunking splits documents into appropriately sized segments for embedding, retrieval, and AI processing. A complete guide for developers.
What Is a Vector Embedding? Definition and Guide
Vector embeddings convert text into numerical representations that capture semantic meaning. A complete guide for developers.
What Is PDF Parsing? Definition and Guide
PDF parsing is the process of reading and interpreting the internal structure of PDF files. A complete guide for developers.