Ask HN: Who is doing the best Word/PDF RAG tool with deep research?

2•_samjarman•5h ago

Hi HN, which SaaS providers are you eyeing up these days for your RAG needs with thousands of PDFs or Word docs and with a agent that can take its time and give well researched, cited answers? TIA!

Comments

randomname4325•4h ago

checkout www.Airwave.us. They are focused on field services where techs comb through thousands of pages of manuals/documentation for part numbers or specific instructions that have to be 100% accurate.

Norcim133•3h ago

I spent the last 2 months trying out RAG/parsing plays. My use-case required high accuracy on complex tables and figures.

Ranking: 1. LlamaCloud/LlamaParse 2. GroundX 3. Unstructured.io 4. Google RAG Engine 5. Docling ... capability gap... 6. Azure - Document Intelligence 7. AWS - Textract 8. LlamaIndex (DIY)

Imanari•2h ago

This ranking is just for the parsing, not the RAG Portion, correct?

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