Why charts and images make RAG chunking harder
In a RAG , documents are split into smaller pieces so the AI can find and use the right parts later. Plain text is usually easier to split than documents where or images carry the main information. If a user needs to see a chart, saving only nearby text may lose the ant part.
A practical approach may be to keep the image as a separate file and attach a short note so it can still be found during . There is no final answer here on the single worst document type; the difficulty depends on what the user needs from the .
Key points
- RAG s split documents into smaller pieces for later search.
- Documents with or images can be harder than plain text documents.
- Images may need to be saved separately with a searchable note.
- The hardest document type depends on what the user expects the to .