Source: http://www.poma-ai.com/docs/learn/ingestion/

# 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/ingestion/what-is-ingestion)
  Learn what ingestion means in a RAG pipeline and why preserving structure early matters later.
- [Ingestion patterns](/learn/ingestion/ingestion-patterns)
  Compare batch, event-based, and connector-driven ingestion patterns.
- [Why RAG needs chunking](/learn/ingestion/why-rag-needs-chunking)
  See why normalized documents are still not ready for retrieval until chunking and indexing happen.
- [Tooling comparison](/learn/ingestion/tooling-comparison)
  Compare Unstructured.io, Textract, Azure Document Intelligence, and POMA AI through the lens of RAG quality.
- [System design](/learn/ingestion/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](/guides/document-ingestion/)