Layout-aware parsing
Extraction that retains headings, columns, tables, captions, and spatial relationships.
What Layout-aware parsing does not show
It reduces structural loss but cannot infer relationships the document never makes explicit.
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Questions about Layout-aware parsing
What is Layout-aware parsing?
Extraction that retains headings, columns, tables, captions, and spatial relationships.
What does Layout-aware parsing not show or guarantee?
It reduces structural loss but cannot infer relationships the document never makes explicit.
Which area of the glossary does Layout-aware parsing belong to?
Retrieval engineering: How pages become chunks, vectors and candidates inside an answer engine, and why being retrieved is not being cited.
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