Ingestion

Use this section when you want the ingestion material broken into smaller pages that you can scan and revisit quickly.

In this section

• What is ingestion? Learn what ingestion means in a RAG pipeline and why preserving structure early matters later.
• Ingestion patterns Compare batch, event-based, and connector-driven ingestion patterns.
• Why RAG needs chunking See why normalized documents are still not ready for retrieval until chunking and indexing happen.
• Tooling comparison Compare Unstructured.io, Textract, Azure Document Intelligence, and POMA AI through the lens of RAG quality.
• System design Review the end-to-end chain and the case for designing ingestion and chunking as one system.

Prefer the narrative version?

• Document ingestion guide