Towards Data Science August 12, 2026 By angela shi

Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From

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Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol. 1 #5nonies] - Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s nature and picks the method that fits, fitz, Docling, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, MinerU or Surya, then folds the outputs into one corpus The post Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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